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... hour at a spell as they watch for their food to come near them . Such birds have peculiar and strikingly marked habits which differentiate them from all others , and make them at once objects of more than ordinary interest . So it is ...
... hour at a spell as they watch for their food to come near them . Such birds have peculiar and strikingly marked habits which differentiate them from all others , and make them at once objects of more than ordinary interest . So it is ...
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... hours , all the birds taking the same line and the majority of them flying singly . When they were in parties , these parties seldom numbered more than half a dozen head . Sometimes as many as ten minutes would elapse between the ...
... hours , all the birds taking the same line and the majority of them flying singly . When they were in parties , these parties seldom numbered more than half a dozen head . Sometimes as many as ten minutes would elapse between the ...
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... hours after they leave the shell , young snipe vacate the nest and follow the parent birds as they search for food . Sometimes an old snipe will feign disablement like a partridge , in order to entice an intruder away from the nest or ...
... hours after they leave the shell , young snipe vacate the nest and follow the parent birds as they search for food . Sometimes an old snipe will feign disablement like a partridge , in order to entice an intruder away from the nest or ...
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... hour . The snipe is a bird which if taken captive as an adult comes to hand ' much more quickly than most others , if not more quickly than members of any family other than the finches . It makes , too , a highly interesting study when ...
... hour . The snipe is a bird which if taken captive as an adult comes to hand ' much more quickly than most others , if not more quickly than members of any family other than the finches . It makes , too , a highly interesting study when ...
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... hours together . She has on two or three occasions exhibited symptoms of impatience at confinement by flying against ... hour , and saw her eat more than twenty worms . The pie - dish is a blue one , and as it was thought to be not quite ...
... hours together . She has on two or three occasions exhibited symptoms of impatience at confinement by flying against ... hour , and saw her eat more than twenty worms . The pie - dish is a blue one , and as it was thought to be not quite ...
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