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Baby birds at home (1912)

Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 208

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and occa-sionally wool. Old eyries are repaired everyspring until they become very bulky. Thewriter has seen one that would have filled thebody of an ordinary cart. Two, and sometimes three, eggs are laid;these are dull white, clouded, blotched, andspotted nearly all over with rusty brown. Young… … COOTS. The Common Coot THIS bird may not inaptly be describedas an enlarged edition of the moorhen.Quite apart, however, from this difference insize it can be readily distinguished by thefact that the bare patch or shield on itsforehead is pure white, whereas that onthe forehead of its relative is…

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