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(regional US and Canada, especially Newfoundland) The red-throated diver..
On discovering a whabby swimming in a small pond, […]
The most remarkable of the sea-birds which frequent these coasts are the lord and lady, of the teal kind; the hounds, rather larger than the teal, which migrate to the north in the spring in large flocks, and as they fly, make a continual noise resembling that of a pack of beagles when in chase; the saddle-back, called also blackback, the largest species of gulls; the tinker, or razor-bill; the loon and whabby, both of the diving genus; and the bull, a smaller bird, also called ice-bird.
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Whabby means (regional US and Canada, especially Newfoundland) The red-throated diver..
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On discovering a whabby swimming in a small pond, […]
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