The Young Naturalist's Book of Birds: Anecdotes of the Feathered Creation

ABABIL according Aleppo Alexandretta amongst anecdote animals appeared Arabs Aristotle beak Benoît de Maillet bill bird called birds of prey black vulture Bochart body branch brought cage catch claws cock colour companion crows curious Damietta Damir dead Diarbekir dogs ducks DUSKEY eagle eaglets earth eating eggs Egypt eyes falcon FALCONRY feathers feet female fish flesh flight fowl geese give goose ground hare hatched hath hawk head heard hundred hyæna inches island killed king length Lincolnshire male Mandingo mountain nature neck neighbouring nest never night Noah numbers observed osprey parrot passed peacock perceived perch picul pigeons plucked plumage prey rachama ravens redbreast returned rocks says seized shore shot sight sometimes soon Spanish dollars sparrow species Spitzbergen stone stork swallows tail taken Taygetos thing took towers traveller tree unto vulture wild wings woods young