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Identifier: halfhourswithfis00hold (find matches)
Title: Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holder, Charles Frederick, 1851-1915
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: New York, American Book Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ounded in the adjacent house. The ownercame out, released the paper, telephoned the message tothe telegraph office, and then fed the birds. The birdswere returned to the island the day following on thesteamer. To perfect this system, two flocks were main-tained, one atSanta Catalina,that had lived inLos Angeles, andanother in LosAngeles that rec-ognized Santa Cat-alina as its home. The famous dodo(Fig. 171), whichbecame extinctwithin historicaltimes, was a gi-gantic pigeon in-capable of flight. It lived upon the island of Mauritiusand was as large as a swan, having a large, hooked billand rudimentary wings. There are over three hundred species of pigeons anddoves found in different parts of the world. Many of thedoves are very beautiful. They have one habit whichmarks them as peculiar. Nearly all birds when drinkinginsert the bill, take a very little water, and holding thebill upward, let the liquid run down the throat; but thepigeons and doves plunge the bill into the water and drink
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Fig. 171. —Dodo.Extinct. SOME SCRATCHING BIRDS 199

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