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BUSYBODIES AND THE BUZZARD . THERE are many English people to whom the buzzard is still little more than a name , suggesting perhaps a mere distant speck , a cross of silver against the deep blue of the sky , or a wailing , strident ...
BUSYBODIES AND THE BUZZARD . THERE are many English people to whom the buzzard is still little more than a name , suggesting perhaps a mere distant speck , a cross of silver against the deep blue of the sky , or a wailing , strident ...
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6 applies to the West - country buzzards , of whose ' increasing numbers ' such misleading accounts have been circulated that the Devon ... one must admit that whole - time protection never proved an efficient safeguard to the buzzard .
6 applies to the West - country buzzards , of whose ' increasing numbers ' such misleading accounts have been circulated that the Devon ... one must admit that whole - time protection never proved an efficient safeguard to the buzzard .
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I have never seen either side lose a feather , the affray invariably ending in the final ascent of the buzzards into ... Works of reference frequently credit the buzzard with the trick of appropriating the abandoned nursery of a crow ...
I have never seen either side lose a feather , the affray invariably ending in the final ascent of the buzzards into ... Works of reference frequently credit the buzzard with the trick of appropriating the abandoned nursery of a crow ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 254 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1930 |
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