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Title: The bird, its form and function
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Beebe, William, 1877-1962
Subjects: Birds -- Anatomy Birds -- Physiology
Publisher: New York : Holt
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ happen to their young, and therefore a veiy highpercentage comes to maturity. Many of these breed incompanies, and are so unacquainted with danger thatthey make no attempt to hide their eggs or to leave thenest when the place is visited by some wandering natu-ralist or egging party. The habit of the King Penguin deserves a note toitself. This l)ig Antarctic l)ii(l guards its one white eggfrom harm by carrying it somewhat as a marsupial doesits 3^oung, in a pouch formed by a fold of the skin of the
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y. 43^ The Bird body between the thiglis. Both sexes are provided withthis contrivance during the breeding season, and reheveeach other of the burden at intervals. The gull tribe, however, are far more exposed to acci-dent and to enemies, both in adult life and as to theireggs and young, than are the penguins, petrels, and othersmentioned above; and here the rule is from two (skuas)to four (gulls and terns) eggs in a nest. When we come

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