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| | Birds - Bufflehead |
 | | In any case a shot is more likely to stun than to kill a bufflehead, that, like most other diving birds, is armored with a thick, well-nigh impenetrable suit of feathers. |
 | | It may fall as if mortally wounded, but the cold water usually revives it at once, and the expectant gunner looks for his victim many yards from where it is safely recovering from its recent excitement. |
 | | Because it can so illy protect itself on land, for it is a wretched walker, and doubtless also because it chooses to nest in countries where the fox and other appreciative eaters of its flesh abound, the bufflehead enters a hollow tree to lay her light buff or olive eggs. |
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