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Scientific American, Vol. 44, No. 10 (1881) (1881)

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eruginosa, acommon species growing in fresh- hawk. This fine bird was formerly water ponds, and which has lately come into public notice in conse- very common in England, but is now but rarely seen within the con- if quence of the so-called ‘* pig-pen ” odor which it exhales when decay- fines of… … When the bird has settled upon its blance of their digestive apparatus nest, or upon any spot where it in- to that of man. The pig who takes tends to eat its prey, it does not re- absinthe is first gay, then excitable, site the opening. Creeping noiselesslyround toward the linquish its hold, but,…

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