College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... BROWN PELICANS 1 C. William Beebe IT IS a great compliment to the conditions under which birds in captivity are kept when such a large and wary species as the brown pelican will breed successfully . For many years these birds have ...
... BROWN PELICANS 1 C. William Beebe IT IS a great compliment to the conditions under which birds in captivity are kept when such a large and wary species as the brown pelican will breed successfully . For many years these birds have ...
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... brown pelicans patient incubation soon began . At last the reward came , and the first young pelican ever hatched north of Florida broke through its shell . There are few more ugly things in the world than a young pelican . Lying prone ...
... brown pelicans patient incubation soon began . At last the reward came , and the first young pelican ever hatched north of Florida broke through its shell . There are few more ugly things in the world than a young pelican . Lying prone ...
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... pelican remain so keenly attuned to the cries of the young birds while they themselves are wholly unable to communicate with one another . To the few naturalists who have enjoyed watching a breeding colony of brown pelicans , the method ...
... pelican remain so keenly attuned to the cries of the young birds while they themselves are wholly unable to communicate with one another . To the few naturalists who have enjoyed watching a breeding colony of brown pelicans , the method ...
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