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it would be an inexplicable circumstance if water 

 birds did not transport plants to unstocked ponds 

 and streams, situate at very distant points. The 

 same agency may have come into play with 

 the eggs of some of the smaller fresh-water 

 animals." 



The manner in which the ubiquitous brown 

 rat obtrudes itself everywhere is only paralleled 

 by the like qualities in the British sparrow. 

 Our weeds have migrated to the colonies, and 

 certain kinds have almost overrun them. In 

 New Zealand the common dock is now widely 

 disseminated, the original seeds being sold by 

 a lively British tar as those of the tobacco 

 plant. 



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