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[on CUL-DAR73.42:] ← There seems to be a species also. Anas curvirostra & a Belgian var. mentioned by Pallas Dict Nat. Sc.

Anas curvirostra, which breeds extraordinary like fowls, moulting & incubation alone stops it breeding: What is this?
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p. 471.    Obsers. sur l' affection maternelle de quelques animaux par Geoffry St. Hilaire . The corneille mantelée Corvus cornix Royston or Hooded?) is very timid in France, in Aegypt where never molested very tame. — Lamarck
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saw 10 or dozen swallows come & help a pair, whose nest a boy had taken, & they rebuilt it by the morning of the ensuing day, though generally a single pair takes from 8 to 12 days —

How early an associated instinct might be got from this.— Female was on point of laying, when nest taken.
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Decandolle, M. 1807. Memoire sur le Drusa, genre nouveaux de la famille des Ombelliferes. Annales du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris 10: 466-471.