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American homes and gardens (1905)

New York, Munn and Co · leaf 46

An illustration from American homes and gardens, 1905, leaf 46
s by probing in soft, damp earth for worms and thelike, the flexible mandible tip acting as a sensitive finger tolocate and extract the prey. The snipe, with a bill almostexactly similar, has about the same habits in feeding. I hesandpipers, with food habits more intermediary between thewoodcocks… … Grooved Bill Ani Horned Owl Iangrove Cuckoo The puffins, another family of seabirds, include Crustaceawith fish in their bill of fare, and find a most radically differ-ent form of bill best adapted to their needs. The gulls andterns, birds of the seas and great lakes, are more omnivorousin their…

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