kept up a very STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. long time. He urges himself forward by slow regular flaps, his head drawnin, and his legs extended. Now and then he sails in wide circles, and whenhe alights he always wheels round and round before he settles. When a white row of herons are standing watching for… … TlIK PEACOCK HERO.\, OR SUN BITTEK.N. they swallow it alive, or, if it is large, beat it on the water or shake it untilit is dead. They do not move until the tide drives them back, and even thenremain until the water reaches their body. They roost on trees, but rarely alight on the same tree, as if…
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