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Stories about birds of land and water (1874)

Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893, Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873 · Hartford [Conn.] : American Publishing Co. · leaf 85

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ject to fits and many kinds of diseases. About the end of September the redstarts go away to a warmer climate.They are very abundant on the shores of the Mediterranean ; and in Francethey are caught in great numbers, not as cage birds, but to be eaten. Smallas the bird is, his flesh is thought to… … WHITE-THROATS. completed, and the mother bird was sitting on her eggs, when, one morning,as the gentleman was walking at some distance from the nest, he saw abroken egg-shell lying on the ground. THE WHITE-THROAT. Ah ! thought he, Some accident has happened to the white-throat.A magpie or a weasel…

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