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... Rooks , in particular , are fond of the eruca of the hedge - chafer , or chesnut - brown beetle , for which they search with indefati- gable pains . Rooks are often accused of feeding upon corn just after it has been sown , and various ...
... Rooks , in particular , are fond of the eruca of the hedge - chafer , or chesnut - brown beetle , for which they search with indefati- gable pains . Rooks are often accused of feeding upon corn just after it has been sown , and various ...
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... Rooks by the agriculturist is a question which general opinion seems to have settled by considering , that the occasional injury is much more than counterbalanced by the amount of benefit conferred in the con- sumption of thousands of ...
... Rooks by the agriculturist is a question which general opinion seems to have settled by considering , that the occasional injury is much more than counterbalanced by the amount of benefit conferred in the con- sumption of thousands of ...
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... Rooks scatter the grass every where , so as to give the appearance of having rooted it up , while they have only exposed the depredations of the insects by which the roots have been destroyed . The author of the Journal of a Naturalist ...
... Rooks scatter the grass every where , so as to give the appearance of having rooted it up , while they have only exposed the depredations of the insects by which the roots have been destroyed . The author of the Journal of a Naturalist ...
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... Rooks seem to have learned from experience how to select those plants which are the most likely to afford them some recom- pense for the trouble they take in grubbing them up . Mr. Jesse , in his instructive glean- ings , says , " A ...
... Rooks seem to have learned from experience how to select those plants which are the most likely to afford them some recom- pense for the trouble they take in grubbing them up . Mr. Jesse , in his instructive glean- ings , says , " A ...
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... Rooks , though there was no rookery within many miles of the neighbourhood , who turned up , and appeared to devour the grubs with great satisfaction . " To prove their utility on other occasions , two or three quotations from the ...
... Rooks , though there was no rookery within many miles of the neighbourhood , who turned up , and appeared to devour the grubs with great satisfaction . " To prove their utility on other occasions , two or three quotations from the ...
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