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Identifier: birdbehaviourpsy00finn (find matches)
Title: Bird behaviour psychical and physiological
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Finn, Frank, 1868-1932
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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LYRE-BIRDS (MALE AND FExMALE). The Lyre-bird is the largest of singing-birds, and is one of the few birds which shows decorative phiiuage without brilliant colonrs. (Copyright, Hulchinson & Co.
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IMPERIAL WOODPECKERS.This American bird is the largest of the Woodpeckers, and shows the rare peculiarity ofthe females crest being longer than the males. SCRATCHERS AND SEIZERS 55 ticularly prolonged and forms a most effective hoe.Another hoeing genus, in a very different family, isthat of the Monauls (Lophophorus) among the game-birds, best-known in the person of the splendid Impeyan Pheasant ; this bird will continuehoeing by the hour, in search of roots and grubs,and scratches very little, although belonging to agroup which are particularly characterized byusing the feet in this way in search of food. In fact, the Game-birds used to be known by thegeneral title of Rasores or scratchers, and every oneknows what execution they can do in this way.Their scratching instinct and capacity, in fact, isno doubt one of their strongest assets in the strugglefor existence ; the habit is not a common one amongbirds when applied to food-getting, though it cropsup again amongst the Passerines; t

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