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p. 102. Didunculus almost destroyed by feral Cats

p 127 Newton on great Ball of Earth to foot of red Partridge (with seeds as shown by me)

[Alfred Newton. 1863. On an illustration of the manner in which birds may occasionally aid in the dispersion of seeds. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 31 (21 April): 127-9. "It will be remembered that Mr. Darwin, in his work on the 'Origin of Species,' speaks of the possibility of the seeds of plants being occassionally transported to great distances by being enclosed in earth adhering to the beaks and feet of birds; and he mentions the fact of his having 'removed twenty-two grains of dry argillaceous earth from one foot of a Partridge,' in which earth 'there was a pebble quite as large as the seed of a vetch (pp. 362, 363).' Now the mass of clay I exhibit is enormously greater than the quantity of earth mentioned by Mr. Darwin, and is sufficient to hold the germs of a very extensive flora."]

p. 191. Salvin on saliva largely used by a swift in building it nest — curious nest.

[Osbert Salvin. 1863. Descriptions of thirteen new species of birds discovered in Central America by Frederick Godman and Osbert Salvin. Ibid, (26 May), pp. 186-92.]

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