Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1162
CE FOR A BIRD TO LAY AND HATCH ITS EGG. islets and volcanic crags, scattered plentifullythrough Oceanica, a little white tern, or sea-swallow, about the size of a dove, known asthe love-bird. Save only for a narrow band ofjetty feathers surrounding the eye, its plumageis of a lustrous white and its… … The treatment, or, as some mightprefer to call it, the mistreatmentof its egg, is the oddest of the love-birds habits. It is really a crag-dwelling species, and therefore pre-fers cliffs of some worn-out island,single spotted egg is deftly balanced on anylittle shelf of rock, often on the top of a…
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