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  • One of the most extreme examples of a hitchhiker fruit is the Sumatran bird-catching tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • One of the most extreme examples of a hitchhiker fruit is the Sumatran bird-catching tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • One of the most extreme examples of a hitchhiker fruit is the Sumatran bird-catching tree.

    The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008

  • About the rest of all that winter I remember very little, being only a young boy then, and missing my father most out of doors, as when it came to the bird-catching, or the tracking of hares in the snow, or the training of a sheep-dog.

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

  • The people there were said to be good, and to be accustomed to hunting and bird-catching, being too far inland to get any part of their food from the sea.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • He had to be satisfied with some butterflies including a few big metallic-blue specimens of the genus Morpho, reassuringly gorgeous and Amazonian, some mantids, and some giant bird-catching spiders of the genus Mygale.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • He had to be satisfied with some butterflies including a few big metallic-blue specimens of the genus Morpho, reassuringly gorgeous and Amazonian, some mantids, and some giant bird-catching spiders of the genus Mygale.

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • Their regular occupation is bird-catching and _shikar_

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

  • No one could say that their education was in any wise neglected, for besides being taught the ordinary duties of life by their mother, such as mouse-hunting, fish-stealing, and bird-catching, they received instructions in the arts of singing, and playing the harp and the piano, and were taught to waltz and dance the polka with every imaginable grace.

    The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition Unknown

  • This profession of ours is a great deal like bird-catching.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

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