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I. > MR R. RUSKIN , in “ Love's Meinie , ” set down the Dabchick as the true connecting link between the land and the water birds . Even the curious and interesting points that arise on an estimate of the bird in this light would give ...
I. > MR R. RUSKIN , in “ Love's Meinie , ” set down the Dabchick as the true connecting link between the land and the water birds . Even the curious and interesting points that arise on an estimate of the bird in this light would give ...
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In my diary I find this note : “ The old bird , stooping down , with one side a little lowered , as it were , into the ... groups of mound - building birds and birds that use heat of rotting leaves and sun for incubation of their eggs .
In my diary I find this note : “ The old bird , stooping down , with one side a little lowered , as it were , into the ... groups of mound - building birds and birds that use heat of rotting leaves and sun for incubation of their eggs .
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I am glad to find on this point some corroboration from the following passage in Dr. Boxdler Sharpe's section on the Dabchick in “ Handbook of British Birds ” ( Allen ) , p . 212 : “ One nest which I found , with the full complement of ...
I am glad to find on this point some corroboration from the following passage in Dr. Boxdler Sharpe's section on the Dabchick in “ Handbook of British Birds ” ( Allen ) , p . 212 : “ One nest which I found , with the full complement of ...
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