Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 79
of the whole group of waders. Wilson says: ‘‘In the grand and wonderful chain of animated nature, the Phalaropes constitute one of the links between the waders and the web-footed birds, having the form of the sandpiper, with the habits of some of the ducks. The scalloped membrane on the toes… … bird, striking so sharply with BLACK-WINGED FALCON.—Hanus melanopterus. beak and claws, that even when wounded it cannot be approached without considerable precaution. The food of the Black- winged Falcon consists chietly of grasshoppers and various insects, from which it is thought to derive the…
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