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British birds (1921) (14568704719)
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Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922; Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925
Identifier: britishbirds00huds (find matches) Title: British birds Year: 1921 (1920s) Authors: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922 Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers), 1858-1925 Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green, and co. Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ued by man,warning them of danger with piercing cries that none fail to under-stand. The redshank, greenshank, and many other species, in thisand other orders, are equally vociferous in the presence of danger,and their warnings are as promptly obeyed by aU wild creaturesthat live with or near them; but a curious feature about the curlewis that he appears to take an intelligent interest Ln the welfare ofbeings not of his own species, and that he is distressed if they fail toact on his signal. In YarreUs British Birds (4th edit. vol. iii.)Howard Saunders gives a striking instance of this characteristic.He describes seeing one of these birds, * after shrieking wildly overthe head of a sleeping seal, swoop down, and apparently flick withits wings the unsuspecting animal, upon which the stalker was justraising his rifle. This, to my mind, is a far more wonderfulinstance of the help-giving instinct in the lower animals than thatrelated by Edwards of Banff, in which a number of terns swooped Text Appearing After Image: COMMON CUBLEW 315 down upon one of their number which he had wounded and waspursuing, and, taking its wings in their beaks, raised it, and bore itaway out to sea beyond his reach. The case of the curlew remindsus rather of the action of the rhinoceros-bird in waking the rhinoceroson the appearance of an enemy; but between curlew a
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