. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. Iirn (ho Domui;, wass KiiK'tis iniiifilcd with ; sonu' stiaii-jci's, who us, ciijdviiig a clinsp, s <,'roat .siirpriso. Tin' lily those ijii,], ^hen it is young, its vn the back, aiuffdii,. 1)03 nni in i)aii-, thu rowan 1. Ihu head, tli. we. and liairv in thoir close examination, on If,' from the shatls cif vet. (Dromai'ns irrotdtiin), head and neck, and liir4fi, three (listiiut tit'iil along the river togelhcr in nf is a swift-looted and onies confused when hen in another, th
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Birds; Natural history; Oiseaux; Sciences naturelles. Iirn (ho Domui;, wass KiiK'tis iniiifilcd with ; sonu' stiaii-jci's, who us, ciijdviiig a clinsp, s <,'roat .siirpriso. Tin' lily those ijii,], ^hen it is young, its vn the back, aiuffdii,. 1)03 nni in i)aii-, thu rowan 1. Ihu head, tli. we. and liairv in thoir close examination, on If,' from the shatls cif vet. (Dromai'ns irrotdtiin), head and neck, and liir4fi, three (listiiut tit'iil along the river togelhcr in nf is a swift-looted and onies confused when hen in another, thus the ground witli his at each end, wIulIi is s to entangle it, and vegetable suhstnncps, the mud hanks of the in the shallows. I'd from INFr. J)ar\vin'3 md-hand description, st remember that the 'lata. To the nnrtli lot common ; to the issi'd the Cordilleras, idlata plain, elevated iig against the wind, :e all sail. On one vhere tluy S(|uatted '. jMr. King informs he saw these l)irds er both wlieii driven ened. The distance ittle of their bodies lieir progress is slow. .'mz liiver, where it '. at a , tlie d, and has a hupT lissing note. \Vlieu. llllEAâ]:hca A imrkdim first I heard it while standing in th nudst of some hillorks, I (! it was ;y .ujne w-,ld beast, tor it is sueh a soun,l that one tell fror wheliee it comes m- tinni liow tar distant. ^"'" ui Wh(.n we were at Bahia , in tlie months of Septenil and October the e-o.^ wen- louiid in extraordinary numbers all over the eountrv. I'liey either lie seitterod sin.^dv, ,â whudi case tlay are never halehed. and are called'by the " hii' ni " or they are collected together into a 'ollow excavation, wliicli ibrms the nest " Oiit'of the toiiv nests which [ saw^ three coutaiiud twenty-two eggs each, and the fourth twentv «T. '. _ In one day's hunting on horseback sixty-four eggs were found ; forty-four of these wor 111 two nests, and the rem
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