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Baby birds at home (1912)

Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 112

An illustration from Baby birds at home, 1912, leaf 112 — . The back is of a greyish tint. The principal food of this species con-sists of small fishes that swim near thesurface of the sea. In olden times people used to eat the fleshof this gull and some of them considered it asgood as that of the partridge. Quite recently the wings of young Kitti-wakes… … LONG-EARED OWLS. The Long-Eared Owl THIS handsome Owl is commoner thanmany people imagine. Its habit ofhiding by day, in the darkest recesses of pineforests and other unfrequented places, makesit appear rarer than it actually is. The so-called long ears are really notears at all, but tufts of…

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