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Identifier: bookofbirdscommo00nati (find matches)
Title: The book of birds, common birds of town and country and American game birds
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: National Geographic Society (U.S.) Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Fuertes, Louis Agassiz, 1874-1927 Kennard, F. H., (Frederic Hedge), 1865- Cooke, Wells Woodbridge, 1858-1916 Shiras, George, 1859-1942
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : National Geographic Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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powers of flightwhich even the eagle camiot suri>ass, and nosmall part of its lime is spent in the upper air,describing gre.it circles on motionless wings asif for the mere pleasure of flight. Let anotherbu/zard, however, discover a carcass, an<i themovements of our aeronaut as he hastens tothe feast are at once noted by his next neigh-bor, and his by a third, till the carrion feedersof a wide territory are assembled. Sight andnot smell, then, is depeufled on by the bu/zardto guide him to his food. Though of greatstrength and provided with a formidable bill,the buzzard rarely, if ever, attacks living ani-mals, unless they are disabled, but dependsupon de.ith to i)rovide for his wants. No doidjthis ability to fast is as great as his capacityfor gorging himself when occasion offers, andhe nuist often go for days without fr)od. Asa scavenger the buzzard does good service andshould contiiuie to. enjoy the i)rotcction whichis at present accorded it in nearly every Stateof the Lnion.
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riiut;(i.t;>li l>y Attliur 1„ .\U>(r iiusn.vNu AM» wiii: The magnificent plumage of the peacock l)elonKS only to the male, and it may l)c noticedthat the female to the left of the picture is far less handsome than her husband, who pre-sents us wuh a back view of his outstretched tail. These birds were once highly c-iteemcdas food, and in the mi<Idlc ages always tigured at the most sumptuous l..i..;ii.ts r,.istcd.but in all the glory of their gaudy plumage. 69

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