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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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little chance ofgetting any of them, guarded as they are by the fierce mother crocodile. THE VULTURE AND THE CROCODILES EGGS. But all the while she was burying them in the sand, according to her usualhabit, the vultures were watching her, By-and-by she finished her task,scraped the sand over the place, and went away for a little diversion, perhapsto wallow in the mud by the river-side.
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THE TAWNY GOOSE VULTUKE. The moment she was out of sight, the vultures, for there were several ofthem, began to bestir themselves. They uttered loud cries, and pouncingdown on the nest, began to scrape away the sand, and devour the eggs.The same vulture contrives to get a taste of the eggs of the ostrich. Thenatives declare that when the parent birds are away from the nest, a stone isseen to fall into it as if from the sky. But, in reality, the vulture has dropped STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. it from where he is hovering high up over the nest, on purpose to break theeggs. Then down he comes, and feasts upon them to his hearts content. The tawny goose vultures are met with in ahnost every part of Africa,and are very tame. They have the useful habits of their tribe, and clearaway rubbish in a very short space of time. THE CONDOR. The grandest of all the birds of prey is the condor. He can soar higherthan the eagle, and though he belongs to the tribe of vultures, that are aninferior race to the

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