...There the vegetation consists of fine grass growing in tufts among low bushes of the "wait-a-bit" thorn ('Acacia detinens'), with its annoying fish-hook-like spines... 
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Range onour right stretches away from us, and that on the left dwindled down;all covered with bamboos, in tufts like other grasses; elephants eatthem...
David Livingstone 「The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873」
...The footing down this slope, too, was appalling, consisting mainly of chunks of lava interspersed with smooth, rounded stones and sparse tufts of grass...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...This Zinder lady hadalso the end of the tufts of her hair—I cannot callthem curls—formed into clayey sticks of maceratedindigo...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...The leg tufts have doubled inlength, and reveal the character of the growth that may be finallyexpected...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...The hair in his frontlet is 16 inches inlength, and the thick coat of shaggy, straw-colored tufts which coveredhis neck and shoulders measured 4 inches...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
...They make theirnests on the ground, near the water, concealingthem under rocks or tufts of grass...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Their nests are hollows in theleaves under tufts of grass or bushes...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...This species is smaller than asio, has shorter ear tufts, the plumage is muchstreaked and edged with rusty, and the toes are unfeathered to their base...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Their nests arehollows in the ground, lined with grasses and generally concealedby tufts of grass or weeds...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...They nest onthe ground under tufts of grass or up-turnedsods, lining the hollow with fine grasses; theirthree or four eggs are grayish white, finely specked with grayish black or purplish...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...The least rareof these consist of tufts of white feathers amongstthe black plumage of the head...
George Murray Levick 「Antarctic Penguins」
...If possible, place the trap between two tufts of grass or weeds, so that it can be readily approached from one side only...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Wolf and Coyote Trapping」
...The front feet are produced into a wide flattened form in some, in others the middle legs are extraordinarily developed, and provided with tufts of hairs, etc...
Edward Saunders 「Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants」
...Taking advantage of its being matted soclosely from the early frosts, the old cocks hid underthe thick tufts and called for close work on the partof our dogs...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
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SHORT-EARED OWL
Called also: Marsh Owl; Meadow Owl
This owl, and its long-eared cousin, wear the tufts of feathers intheir ears that resemble harmless horns...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
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