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Page 191
... bird watching has raised , and which can only be solved in full by more watching . IV To watch birds is delightful enough in itself ; but most people like a back- ground against which they can set their observations . These feathered ...
... bird watching has raised , and which can only be solved in full by more watching . IV To watch birds is delightful enough in itself ; but most people like a back- ground against which they can set their observations . These feathered ...
Page 194
... birds , on the other hand , very few are herbivorous ; such are some of the geese and ducks . The birds as a whole thus stuck to a meat diet ; but their average size de- termined the average size of their prey . The great majority of ...
... birds , on the other hand , very few are herbivorous ; such are some of the geese and ducks . The birds as a whole thus stuck to a meat diet ; but their average size de- termined the average size of their prey . The great majority of ...
Page 195
... birds . The bird watcher and the bird lover ask for more birds , and more different kinds of them , and more opportunities of quietly watching and studying them . In the last thirty or forty years there has been a welcome change in the ...
... birds . The bird watcher and the bird lover ask for more birds , and more different kinds of them , and more opportunities of quietly watching and studying them . In the last thirty or forty years there has been a welcome change in the ...
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