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"text": "MALIMBA BEE-EATER. [...] Cinereo-violaceous Bee-Eater, sanguine rose-coloured beneath, with black eye-stripe, white throat, and two lengthened tail-feathers.",
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"text": "The plumage pattern of the red-backed shrike male is conspicuous from a long distance. This pattern, not the feathering, is all-important since a plain plastic model is as effective as a stuffed mount in eliciting mobbing by pied flycatchers. Removal of the conspicuous eye stripe (including the equally dark eye) renders the model almost ineffective[…].",
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"text": "These two birds somewhat closely resemble each other, but the Sedge Warbler is russet-brown above, the feathers with dark centres, the pale buff eyestripe is very clearly defined, and the underparts are buffish white; the Reed Warbler is more olive on the upper parts, the feathers having no dark centres, the underparts are more inclined to buff, and the eyestripe is nearly obsolete.",
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"text": "The plumage pattern of the red-backed shrike male is conspicuous from a long distance. This pattern, not the feathering, is all-important since a plain plastic model is as effective as a stuffed mount in eliciting mobbing by pied flycatchers. Removal of the conspicuous eye stripe (including the equally dark eye) renders the model almost ineffective[…].",
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"text": "Once in a while a design feature shows up in animals that are not closely related. A good example is the eyestripe coloration pattern, which appears in sparrows, antelopes, and chipmunks. In all these creatures, a dark facial stripe runs from the snout to the eye. [...] Presumably eyestripes serve as protective coloration in all these prey animals, disguising their eyes from predators.",
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},
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