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Two, the White-backed and the Long-billed, are endangered.
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We now come to the Epimachidae, or Long-billed Birds of
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Long-billed avian heads swayed or bobbed up and down.
Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968
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Sutton and Burleigh (1939a: 28) noted the Long-billed Curlew
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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In Coahuila the Long-billed Thrasher seems to be uncommon.
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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{98} Mockingbird, 5; Carolina Wren, 12; House Wren, 2; Long-billed Marsh
The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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Long-billed marsh wrens are the architects, and so fond are they of building that frequently three or four unused nests are constructed before the little chocolate jewels are deposited.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919
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Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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We now come to the Epimachidae, or Long-billed Birds of Paradise, which, as before stated, ought not to be separated from the Paradiseidae by the intervention of any other birds.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Long-billed heads, horribly jawed faces, knotty tentacles innumerable, went out after Lilith.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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