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... bird hurtling around the crater rim was a large long - tailed swift of a uniform dull brown . This bird , described as ... birds from the green clerestories . Lying back against one tree , staring up into another , I could watch the olive 58.
... bird hurtling around the crater rim was a large long - tailed swift of a uniform dull brown . This bird , described as ... birds from the green clerestories . Lying back against one tree , staring up into another , I could watch the olive 58.
Page 120
... birds on earth . Everywhere the clouds were crossed by giant birds in their slow circles , like winged reptiles on an antediluvian sky . One morning the dog pile broke apart before daylight and headed off toward the herds under Naabi ...
... birds on earth . Everywhere the clouds were crossed by giant birds in their slow circles , like winged reptiles on an antediluvian sky . One morning the dog pile broke apart before daylight and headed off toward the herds under Naabi ...
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... birds . For the first time I behold the bright , marvelous mechanisms known to man as the rosy - patched shrike , white - throated bee - eater , and Fischer's widow - bird , named in honor of Thomson's rival , the German natu- ralist ...
... birds . For the first time I behold the bright , marvelous mechanisms known to man as the rosy - patched shrike , white - throated bee - eater , and Fischer's widow - bird , named in honor of Thomson's rival , the German natu- ralist ...
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