 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 Seiten
...the injuries of the weather. The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic work, full of knobs and protuberances on the outside: nor is the inside...a bed of moss interwoven with wool." In this nest are produced four or five young, which, when arrived at full growth, soon become impatient of confinement,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 Seiten
...knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside smoothed with any great exactness; but it is rendered soft and warm, and fit for incubation,...by a bed of moss interwoven with wool. In this nest are produced four or five young ones; which, when arrived at full growth, become impatient of confinement,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 Seiten
...the injuries of the weather. The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic work, full of knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside...examined smoothed with any exactness at all ; but it is rendered soft and warm, and fit for incubation, by a lining of small straws, grasses, and feathers... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 Seiten
...smoothed with any exactness at all; but it is rendered soft and warm, and fit for incubation, by alining of small straws, grasses, and feathers ; and sometimes by a bed of moss interwoven with wool. In this they tread or engender frequently during the time of building; and the hen lays from three to five... | |
 | Mary Anne Cragg - 1830 - 260 Seiten
...was composed of mud on the outside; and the inside is made soft, by a lining of small straws, grass, and feathers, and sometimes by a bed of moss, interwoven with wool. But nothing is more common, than for the house-sparrow, as soon as the shell is finished, to seize... | |
 | 1831 - 652 Seiten
...the inside of those than 1 hare examined smoothed with any exactness at all ; but is rendered s\pft and warm and fit for incubation, by a lining of small straws, grasses, arVd feathers; and sometimes by a bedding of moss interwoven with wool. \They are often capricious... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 Seiten
...from the injuries of weather. The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic-work, full of knobs and protuberances on the outside ; nor is the inside...engender, frequently during the time of building ; and the hen lays from three to five white eggs. At first, when the young are hatched, and are in a naked and... | |
 | 1832 - 406 Seiten
...for which it was intended. " The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rusticwork, full of knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside...small straws, grasses and feathers, and sometimes by a bedding of moss interwoven with wool. They are often capricious in fixing on a nesting-place, beginning... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 Seiten
...for which it was intended. The shell, or crust of the nest, is a sort of rustic work, full of knobs and protuberances on the outside ; nor is the inside...straws, grasses, and feathers ; and sometimes by a bedding of moss interwoven with wool. They are often capricious in fixing on a nesting place, beginning... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 Seiten
...from the injuries of weather. The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic- work full of knobs and protuberances on the outside ; nor is the inside...sometimes by a bed of moss interwoven with wool. In this nost they tread, or engender, frequently during the time of building ; and the hen lays from three... | |
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The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic work full of knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside of those that I have examined smoothed with any exactness at all ; but is rendered soft... 
