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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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THE SrUR-WINGED GOOSE. swan, nor as active as the duck, they row themselves along the water with easeand facility, and their power of flight is remarkable. The grey goose, from which our domestic goose is descended, wasformerly common in the fenny districts of England, but is now compara-tively rare both in this country and in Ireland. It is a regular winter visitor
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STORMY PETRELS, STORIES ABOUT TITIDS. to the Orkney and Shetland Islands, but does not remain to rear its brood,passing northwards in the spring. Geese Hve principally on vegetable diet; by means of the hard margins oftheir beaks they are able to crop grass and various kinds of vegetables. Theylikewise procure small animals and plants from the bottom of the pond or river. The spur-winged goose, of which we give an illustration, is a native ofCentral and South Africa. It is very rarely to be seen in England, althoughspecimens have been shot in Yorkshire, and also in Cornwall. THE STORMY TETREL. The stormy petrel is a bird of the sea, and very different in its habits fromthe birds we have been describing. In colour it is of a sooty black. Itswings are like those of the swallow, and enable it to mount high in the air ;and they are so strong that it can keep all day on the wing, and may be heardthroughout the night. Indeed, it rarely comes to land, except to make itsnest in some cliftor s

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