Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928 · London, New York [etc.] Cassell and company, ltd. · leaf 92
in colour. The real shell is usuallyhidden by a thick coating of chalk, which canbe scraped off quite easily with a pocket-knife. Young Cormorants are hatched absolutelynaked, and as their shiny skins are bluish-black, they look rather ugly. In a few days,however, they grow a coat of dusky… … The Garden Warbler THE Garden Warbler is a little brownbird of retiring habits. It is about sixinches in length, but cannot very well bemistaken for a female blackcap if the fact isremembered that it has no rusty brown onthe top of its head; or for the whitethroat,because the colour under its bill…
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