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  • The silver-bill tyrant, however, is much more conspicuous; I saw it in the same neighborhood as the red-back and also in many other places.

    I. The Start 1914

  • The silver-bill tyrant, however, is much more conspicuous; I saw it in the same neighborhood as the red-back and also in many other places.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Also, another main source of food is the red-back spider.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • There were stories of the red-back spider that hides under the toilet seat to avoid publicity, and the taipan snake that was so poisonous it could kill a man on a horse after killing the horse, and would do both these things unprovoked, because it liked publicity.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • A deadly Australian red-back spider found in Leixlip, Co Kildare turned out to be little more than a case of mistaken identity when the creature in question was identified as a common European spider at Alps - bigger than any other known tracks from such an early period.

    WN.com - Articles related to Sheen kicks Blair, Frost habit for soccer sideline 2009

  • "After our more severe Editorial work is done -- the scissors laid in our drawer, and the monthly record, made as full as our pages will bear, of history -- we have a way of throwing ourselves back into an old red-back

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various

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