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Page 250
... birds drank dew as it " fell . " The birds were supposed to have no feet , but an English scientist , John Latham , writ- ing in 1782 , exposed this pleasant nonsense by describing the method the Papuans used to preserve the skins of ...
... birds drank dew as it " fell . " The birds were supposed to have no feet , but an English scientist , John Latham , writ- ing in 1782 , exposed this pleasant nonsense by describing the method the Papuans used to preserve the skins of ...
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... birds . However , these hybrids are undoubtedly very rare , probably sterile , and only serve to accentuate the need of some mechanism , display or otherwise , to keep the paradise birds from interbreeding . King Bird of Paradise , Page ...
... birds . However , these hybrids are undoubtedly very rare , probably sterile , and only serve to accentuate the need of some mechanism , display or otherwise , to keep the paradise birds from interbreeding . King Bird of Paradise , Page ...
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... birds ever reached the Moluccas is one of those mys- teries of bird distribution in the East Indian islands which make study of this area so fasci- nating . That the group is an ancient one goes without saying . It is possible , of ...
... birds ever reached the Moluccas is one of those mys- teries of bird distribution in the East Indian islands which make study of this area so fasci- nating . That the group is an ancient one goes without saying . It is possible , of ...
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