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Identifier: cassellsbookofbi01breh (find matches)
Title: Cassell's book of birds
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 Jones, Thomas Rymer, 1810-1880
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London (etc.), Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ream was apparently in full flow. He very soon found that it was impossible evento count the flocks, which seemed gradually to unite into one great living, roaring torrent. Someflew high in the air, until they were immediately over their roosting-place, and then suddenly plungeddown, wheeling round and round towards the tree-tops, of which they were in search. Otherscrowded onwards, flying close to the ground—indeed, so closely that some of them nearly grazed hisface. They swept along with the rapidity of thought, and their dazzling plumage seemed to be lit upwithgorgeous brilliancy, as it glanced in the rays of the sun. He waited at his post of observationuntil the evening closed in, and he could see no longer, but even then the flight of the birds as theymade towards their nests was audible. When he fired oft a gun, they rose with a sound like that ofa furiously rushing wind; soon, however, they again settled down, and commenced an indescribable 28 cassells book of birds. JSggiiS;
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COCKATOOS (Cacatna). PARROTS. 29 hubbub. The shrill screams of the birds, the noise caused by the fluttering of their wings, and therattling of the leaves of the palm-trees was so deafening, that he was heartily glad when he escapedfrom such a turmoil, and took refuge in his own house. Next to a safe sleeping-place, the presence of trees thickly crowned with foliage is an essentialrequisite for the comfortable lodgment of parrots; this they require, not so much as a protectionagainst the weather, as for a secure hiding-place. Of all things they like warmth, nevertheless theydo not absolutely avoid a cool temperature, and still less are they afraid of wet, at least for a time. .itefii far\fa

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