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Baby birds at home (1912)

Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 156

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of a gorse bush, and is built of rootlets, drygrass and moss, with an inner lining of hair,wool, or feathers. From four to six, or even seven, eggs arelaid. These are pale bluish green in colour,spotted round the larger end with reddishbrown. The young ones fledge before they are ableto fly very… … SKYLARKS. The Skylark POETS of all ages have loved the Skylark,and praised its wonderful song in manya pretty line. Its habits of rising early in themorning and singing whilst it mounts the airhave given writers of verse a great oppor-tunity of displaying their descriptive powers.In Scotland this…

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