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Food habits of water-birds of the Sundarbans, 24-Parganas District, West Bengal.
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The water does not appear to be deep, but covers a large area; there were a few pelicans and other water-birds on it.
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At seven miles struck it; found plenty of water, but very salt, with pelicans and other water-birds upon it.
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Ducks flew up in pairs — and it was strange to see those water-birds darting rapidly about among the pines.
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They might be the notes of owls or water-birds, yet they did not quite resemble either sound.
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Once there was a child, whose face was like the new moon shining on cypress trees and the feathers of water-birds.
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It was a wide extent of marshy land, and they would probably find good sport, for water-birds ought to swarm there.
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It was a wide extent of marshy land, and they would probably find good sport, for water-birds ought to swarm there.
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And at one point it was that a wier-wier, one of the solitary water-birds of this region, uttered its ouphe and barghest cry, flying from somewhere near into some darker recess within the woods.
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We saw many of the pretty white ardea, and other water-birds, flying over the spots not yet dried up; and occasionally wild ducks, but these only in numbers sufficient to remind us that we were approaching the Zambesi, where every water-fowl has a home.
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