The Living Age, Volume 281Living Age Company, 1914 |
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Page 123
... birds with no nice , dry house to go to . " It surprises us often that we do not see them looking more bedraggled ... birds can be . Of course , we can well understand that , coated like a penguin , you are as im- pervious to water as if ...
... birds with no nice , dry house to go to . " It surprises us often that we do not see them looking more bedraggled ... birds can be . Of course , we can well understand that , coated like a penguin , you are as im- pervious to water as if ...
Page 142
... birds . Ex- cept for a few domestic tussles for the privilege of warming the eggs , there is no quarrelling . The male birds hold jousts on certain bare patches of sand in the midst of the colony , but their tourneys are quite harmless ...
... birds . Ex- cept for a few domestic tussles for the privilege of warming the eggs , there is no quarrelling . The male birds hold jousts on certain bare patches of sand in the midst of the colony , but their tourneys are quite harmless ...
Page 143
... birds are crowded together in one locality , the wonder is that they can find food at all , not that they turn to robbery in order to procure it . The common terns muster in their thousands at Ravenglass . They nest on a grassy flat in ...
... birds are crowded together in one locality , the wonder is that they can find food at all , not that they turn to robbery in order to procure it . The common terns muster in their thousands at Ravenglass . They nest on a grassy flat in ...
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