Swift of flight, powerfully armed, but above all endowed with extraordinary courage, they pursue their weaker cousins, making the latter disgorge their already swallowed prey, which is nimbly caught before it reaches the water; and this habit, often observed by sailors and fishermen, has made these predatory, and parasitic birds locally known as "Teasers," "Boatswains," 2 and, from a misconception of their 1 Thus written by Hoier (circa 1604) as that of a Faeroese bird (hodie Skuir) an example of which he sent to Clusius (Exotic. Auctarium, p. 367). [Please select]
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Those marked on their rumps by the teasers are taken into the alley. [Please select]
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Beebe_) 158 {xiv} Five Little Teasers Get No Dinner from Mamma Blue Jay. [Please select]
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Keith's manner more than his words shut up most of his teasers. [Please select]
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The pigment on the brisket should be renewed every two or three days; and it will be necessary to change the "teasers"--as these aproned rams are called--about once a week, as they do not long retain their courage under such unnatural circumstances. [Please select]
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On go the hunters--big dogs, little dogs, bear-teasers, and deer-hounds, sprinkled with darkeys--crashing through cane and underbrush, the human portion of the party laughing and yelling as if a tempest had stolen them ages ago from Babel, and just discharged them in pursuit of that particular 'coon.' [Please select]
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