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Birds have no need to lurk hidden in dens, or to slink from place to place under the shelter of the inequalities of the ground or of the vegetation which clothes it, as is the case with some many animals of similar size.
Alfred Newton
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Born:
June 11, 1829
Died:
June 7, 1907
(aged 77)
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Alfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist. Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907.
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