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Birds- Protection

to escape protection detection the notice by their enemies, & in some instances so as to approach their prey unobserved; in the same manner as owls have had their plumage rendered soft, that they flight their flight may not be overheard in their flight.)

Mr. Wallace remarks* (*Westminster Review July 1867 p 5) that "it is only in the tropics, among forests which never lose their foliage, that we find whole groups of birds, whose chief colour is green." It will be admitted by everyone, who has ever [text excised] covered

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