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... bird as a Nashville warbler , or as a sharp - shinned hawk , or as a pectoral sandpiper , we have learned our lesson ... birds enables us to recognize them distantly by some distinguishing movement or attitude or flash of color , merely ...
... bird as a Nashville warbler , or as a sharp - shinned hawk , or as a pectoral sandpiper , we have learned our lesson ... birds enables us to recognize them distantly by some distinguishing movement or attitude or flash of color , merely ...
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... bird altogether until he recognizes the oriole quality . Moreover , the morning song may change two or three times as ... birds by the ear alone , without the aid of sight , perhaps just because it is harder for me to do . Perhaps it is ...
... bird altogether until he recognizes the oriole quality . Moreover , the morning song may change two or three times as ... birds by the ear alone , without the aid of sight , perhaps just because it is harder for me to do . Perhaps it is ...
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... bird of the same name not in all cases a safe assumption ; think of the English and American robins ! See also D'Arcy Wentworth Thomp- son , A Glossary of Greek Birds , new ed . ( London : Humphrey Milford , 1936 ) . ― The Chinese Poems ...
... bird of the same name not in all cases a safe assumption ; think of the English and American robins ! See also D'Arcy Wentworth Thomp- son , A Glossary of Greek Birds , new ed . ( London : Humphrey Milford , 1936 ) . ― The Chinese Poems ...
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