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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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LllTLb UKtBK AM) THtlli NhBTS. After the breerling season, they frequent the inlets of the sea, and feedon shrimps and other marine productions. This species is not uucom-mon in most parts of the old continent.23 156 THE RED PHALAROPE. THE RED PHALAROPE. The Flat-billed, or Red Phalarope, inhabits the whole ^rctjv rrrinduring summer, where, in the security of solitude, it papsf^ the. important period of reproduction. It is observed in the north ard east ofEurope; in abundance in Siberia, upon the banks of lakes and livers,and it extends its vernal migrations to the borders of the Caspian Theyabound in the hyperboreal regions of America, breeding on the NorthGeorgian Islands, and the remote and wintry coasts of MellvillePeninsula. The late enterprising and scientific northern navigators,on the 10th of June, in the latitude of 68°, saw a company of theselittle daring voyagers out at lea, four miles from land, swimmingat their ease, amidst mountains of ice. They are seen also by mari-ne

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