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... doubt it : I think that if a dozen people who had never tasted either bird before were asked to decide the matter , two would vote for the ' cock as the better bird , two for the snipe as the better bird , and that the remainder would ...
... doubt it : I think that if a dozen people who had never tasted either bird before were asked to decide the matter , two would vote for the ' cock as the better bird , two for the snipe as the better bird , and that the remainder would ...
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... doubt the great snipe frequently escapes recognition , unless those through whose hands the birds pass are especially on the look- out for it . Besides this , a vast number of people who engage in snipe shooting are quite unaware of the ...
... doubt the great snipe frequently escapes recognition , unless those through whose hands the birds pass are especially on the look- out for it . Besides this , a vast number of people who engage in snipe shooting are quite unaware of the ...
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... doubt at all that the snipe he shot were really great snipe . The Solitary Snipe I have at different times shot here is much larger than the Common Snipe ; bill shorter ; plumage nearly alike , with the exception of the belly , which in ...
... doubt at all that the snipe he shot were really great snipe . The Solitary Snipe I have at different times shot here is much larger than the Common Snipe ; bill shorter ; plumage nearly alike , with the exception of the belly , which in ...
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... doubt that if the instinct of the full snipe prompted it during a lengthy frost to eat what the jack cats , the system of the one bird would assimilate it as well as the system of the other , yet the one bird never con- ceives the idea ...
... doubt that if the instinct of the full snipe prompted it during a lengthy frost to eat what the jack cats , the system of the one bird would assimilate it as well as the system of the other , yet the one bird never con- ceives the idea ...
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... doubt , lessens the delicacy of its sense of touch when in the ground . Hence the snipe when feeding repairs to the water at frequent intervals for the purpose of cleansing its bill . The slime from the worms tends to form rapid ...
... doubt , lessens the delicacy of its sense of touch when in the ground . Hence the snipe when feeding repairs to the water at frequent intervals for the purpose of cleansing its bill . The slime from the worms tends to form rapid ...
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