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" ... the next afternoon; when one of them, which was somewhat superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. "
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page 127
1789
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The illustrated natural history, Volume 2; Volume 125

John George Wood - 1862 - 806 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed by the weight of its...
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The Illustrated Natural History: Birds. 1864

John George Wood - Vertebrates - 1831 - 802 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed by the weight of its...
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The London, Volume 3

1868 - 506 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and an unhatched eggThis contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several rimes nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again, oppressed by the weight of its...
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The Christian miscellany, and family visiter, Volume 15

1868 - 398 pages
...size turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable ; the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its burden...
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Natural History: Exhibiting in a Series of Delightful Anecdotes and ...

William Bingley - Zoology - 1871 - 1056 pages
...out the other, together with the young Hedge-Sparrow, and the unhatched egg. The contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times, nearly to the top of th'e nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its...
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The parlour menagerie [signed J.H.].

John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
...out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down oppressed by the weight of its burthen...
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A History of British Birds, Volume 2

William Yarrell - Birds - 1882 - 566 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young Hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its...
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Animal intelligence (treatise).

George John Romanes - Animal behavior - 1882 - 550 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again oppressed with the weight of...
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The Birds of Wordsworth Poetically, Mythologically, and Comparatively Examined

William H. Wintringham - Birds in literature - 1892 - 446 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed with the weight of...
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Natural History of the World: With Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits ...

Alfred Henry Miles - Animal behavior - 1895 - 462 pages
...superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of the burthen...
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