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" ... by one leg to watch it fall : when it reached the ground he testified his satisfaction by a low chirp, and giving himself a vigorous swing caught the perch with his other foot, and walked gravely along to another capsule, not hoppmg, but placing one... "
Contributions to the Natural History of Labuan, and the Adjacent Coasts of ... - Page 27
by James Motley, Lewis Llewellyn Dillwyn - 1855 - 62 pages
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 105

1855 - 518 pages
...hopping, but placing one foot before the other ma most old-fashioned way. Another of these parrakccts, which had been pinioned by a shot without being otherwise...cage evidently to try the effect of his contrivance. Of the Labuan woodpecker — Picvs leucogaster — Mr. Motley relates : These birds are not uncommon...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 105

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...swing caught the perch with his other foot, and waited gravely along to another capsule, not hoppmg, but placing one foot before the other in a most old-fashioned...where, soon finding his two long tail-feathers to be nn incurabrance, he deliberately turned round, pulled them out, and then walked round the cage evidently...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 105

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...foot, and walked gravely along to another capsule, not hoppmg, but placing one foot before the other ma most old-fashioned way. Another of these parrakeets,...where, soon finding his two long tail-feathers to be an ineшnоranсe, he deliberately turned round, pulled them out, and then walked round the cage evidently...
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A Catalogue of the Birds in the Museum of the Hon. East-India Company, Volume 2

East India Company. Museum, Frederic Moore, Thomas Horsfield - Birds - 1858 - 338 pages
...turpentine. A specimen was shot while feeding upon the seeds of the Dillenia speciosa, a shrub about 10 or 15 feet high ; and it is the only instance in which we...cage, evidently to try the effect of his contrivance." — (Messrs. Motley and Dillwyn, Nat. Hist, of Labuan, 1855.) 902. PAL^EORNIS ERYTHROGENYS, Blyth....
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Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 14

English periodicals - 1856 - 444 pages
...along to another capsule, not hupping, but placing one foot before the other in a most odd-fashioned way. Another of these parrakeets, which had been pinioned...cage evidently to try the effect of his contrivance. — Contributions to the Natural History of Labuan. On the Habits of Dicaum croceoventer in Confinement....
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