The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 586
uthenti-cated) is that of its possessing the power ofwalking, in quest of its prey, on the pebblybottom of a river, in the same way, and withthe same case, as if it were on dry land. Thefemale makes her nest in the banks of the ri-vulet, of the same kind of material, and nearlyof the same form as… … This bird, though a distinct genus of itself,has many traits in its character very similar toboth the corn crake and the water crake ; itis migratory, like the former, to which it alsobears some resemblance in its size, its longshape, and in the flatness of its body : itshaunts and manner of living…
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