It is not, however, peculiar to that bird.html">bird: the
even some true hawks, are all more or lesstame.html">tame.html">tame. As the birds.html">birds.html">birds.html">birds.html">birds are
that the absence of all rapacious animals at the Galapagos is not
Falklands show, by the precaution they take in building on the
they are not by this rendered wild towards man.html">man. This tameness of
with the habits of the same species in Tierra del.html">del Fuego, where
In the Falklands, the sportsman may sometimes kill more of the
del Fuego it is nearly as difficult to kill one as it is in
been much tamer than at present; he states that the
wand he killed ten in half an hour. At that period.html">period the birds must
appear to have learnt caution more slowly at these latter islands
experience; for besides frequent visits from vessels, those
period. Even formerly, when all the birds were so tame, it was
bird of passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt
1571-72, with the exception of the flamingoes and geese, were so
in any number with a stick. Again, at Tristan d'Acunha in the
thrush and a bunting, were "so tame as to suffer themselves to be
page 496. The most anomalous fact on this subject which I have
of North America (as described by Richardson "Fauna Bor." volume
case is the more strange, because it is asserted that some of the
tame. There is much, as Dr. Richardson well remarks, utterly
care with which birds conceal their nests. How strange it is that
frequently rear its young in shrubberies close to houses!) From
wildness of birds with regard to man is a particular instinct
of caution arising from other sources of.
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