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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 3009 — BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.

John Bostock translation

This is not the case. Aristotle only says that it builds its nest of human ordure; a story probably without any foundation, but still prevalent among the French peasantry.

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