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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 550

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e 650 of Nature and Science forMay was shown the expanded, flower-like ten-tacles of a sea anemone. Here is a photograph of a profusely branch-ing body resembling a cluster of thorny twigsor a mass of shrubbery, but it is really the ex- Now we may search for cowbirds eggs ternal skeleton and home… … THE CORAL KNOWN TO SCIENTISTS AS MADREPORA CERVICORNIS. unwelcome eggs with a new lining to hernest. It is interesting and instructive to observehow curiously and skilfully they are made.Nests may be carried and even collected afterthe young birds have left the nests. What avariety of substances…

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