Indian Birds: Being a Key to the Common Birds of the Plains of India

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same way as the swallows, but they never perch

ing. It flies over the water and every now and again hovers on rap

its food in much the same wa

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wo species spend hours in the air sailing

ionless on expanded wings, until one espies something to eat on the earth

aves over land much as the Pied

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