Within an Hour of London Town Among Wild Birds and Their HauntsWilliam Blackwood and Sons, 1892 - 314 páginas |
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... and switches like so many whips . The lap of the tide on the saltings , the shriek of the curlew , and the twitter of the dunlins tell you plainly birds will keep close to cover if they can get it . 38 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN .
... and switches like so many whips . The lap of the tide on the saltings , the shriek of the curlew , and the twitter of the dunlins tell you plainly birds will keep close to cover if they can get it . 38 WITHIN AN HOUR OF LONDON TOWN .
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... curlew and a plover , when these birds are standing up ; but when the birds have squatted on the hard dry slub , heads to wind- ward , making the best of it until feeding - time comes , it is almost impossible , unless some fortunate ...
... curlew and a plover , when these birds are standing up ; but when the birds have squatted on the hard dry slub , heads to wind- ward , making the best of it until feeding - time comes , it is almost impossible , unless some fortunate ...
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... curlew comes next on our list . His plumage , mottled , speckled , and cut up with broken tones of brown , grey , white , and light- red , makes him look like a plover when squatted , unless his long sickle - shaped bill can be detected ...
... curlew comes next on our list . His plumage , mottled , speckled , and cut up with broken tones of brown , grey , white , and light- red , makes him look like a plover when squatted , unless his long sickle - shaped bill can be detected ...
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... curlew , for the bird's bump of self - preser- vation is so largely developed that it is considered a feather in a shooter's cap to take the rise out of one neatly . All coast lads are born with fowling and fishing instincts . No matter ...
... curlew , for the bird's bump of self - preser- vation is so largely developed that it is considered a feather in a shooter's cap to take the rise out of one neatly . All coast lads are born with fowling and fishing instincts . No matter ...
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... Curlew , " whispered back the sage of fourteen ; " they're feeding round the mouth of the gully on Lend us yer gun , I ken knock ' em over . the ooze . I knows I ken do it . " " But she'll kick and bruise ye terrible . " " Oh no , she ...
... Curlew , " whispered back the sage of fourteen ; " they're feeding round the mouth of the gully on Lend us yer gun , I ken knock ' em over . the ooze . I knows I ken do it . " " But she'll kick and bruise ye terrible . " " Oh no , she ...
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