The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe, Volumes 3-4Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1892 |
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Page 238
... birds are justly esteemed a great delicacy , yielding a dish not unlike roast sucking - pig . Walking down to the cliffs in the breeding season is hazardous , as the birds in myraids wheel round your head and deafen you with their ...
... birds are justly esteemed a great delicacy , yielding a dish not unlike roast sucking - pig . Walking down to the cliffs in the breeding season is hazardous , as the birds in myraids wheel round your head and deafen you with their ...
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... bird with that of the harmless pigeon . " It may , therefore , if we adopt the opinion of Dr. Bennett , be considered as the nearest living ally of the now extinct dodo " of Bourbon and Mauritius . The wonderfully beautiful birds of ...
... bird with that of the harmless pigeon . " It may , therefore , if we adopt the opinion of Dr. Bennett , be considered as the nearest living ally of the now extinct dodo " of Bourbon and Mauritius . The wonderfully beautiful birds of ...
Page 167
... birds . " Some large groups are , however , altogether absent . We have no woodpecker , no humming - birds , no trogons , and few , if any , good songsters . Other handsome forms compensate in some measure for the loss . Numerous game ...
... birds . " Some large groups are , however , altogether absent . We have no woodpecker , no humming - birds , no trogons , and few , if any , good songsters . Other handsome forms compensate in some measure for the loss . Numerous game ...
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