Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 98
t hammer, usually striking thevictim on the head. If the first blow fails to kill,the bird follows it with others in rapid succes-sion. When the dead animal is too big to be swal-lowed whole, the bird, seizing the head in hisbeak, holds the body down under his foot andstretches and pulls it until… … THE SECRETARY-BIRD KILLING A SNAKE BY RAPIDBLOWS WITH ITS FOOT. their neighbors. The nests are very large. Theyare built of sticks, and are generally placed in adense thicket or in a small tree. The two eggsare bluish white. A NATURAL MOLDING A wind-storm twisted and splintered about fifteenfeet in…
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