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Scientific American, Vol. 27, No. 20 (1872) (1872)

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n its egg, the case is men- the depression of the ocean bed. Then came the period tioned of a kingfisher that began six nests, abandoning when,as the crust shrank all in turn and depositing her it formed into corrugations ; egg in the seventh, after in other words, the foldings SECTION THROUGH A.B,… … nest is often built. It is doubt- work expended in crushing less probable that the egg thus became tinged to secure for which are bored to receive the tubular sections, at angles cal- down and dislocating the parts of the crust is tracsformed it the protection of the verdure of the grass in which…

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