 While among the bushes," says Mr. Gould, " I have been surrounded by these birds, pouring forth their loud and liquid calls for days together, without being able to get a sight of them ; and it was only by the most determined perseverance and extreme...  Handbook to The Birds of Australia - Seite 299von John Gould - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1842 - 450 Seiten
...extreme caution that he was enabled to effect this desirable object, which was rendered VOL. I. KO. V. DD the more difficult by their often frequenting the...inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies and ravines. Its food appears to consist principally of insects, especially those of the Coleopterous order, and... | |
 | Wonders - 1848 - 496 Seiten
...was enabled to effect this desirable object, and which was rendered the more difficult by the birds often frequenting the almost inaccessible and precipitous...ravines covered with tangled masses of creepers and thickly-clothed trees. The cracking of a stick, the rolling down of a small stone, or any noise however... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 Seiten
...effect this desirable object, which was rendered the more difficult by their often frequenting the must inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies and ravines, covered with tangled masses of creej>ers and umbrageous trees. The cracking '.t' a stick, the rolling down of a small stone, or any... | |
 | London Zoo (London, England) - 1875 - 68 Seiten
...this to medesirable object, which was rendered all the more difficult by their often frequentingthe almost inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies...tangled masses of creepers and umbrageous trees ; the crackling of a stick, the rolling down of a small stone, or any other noise, however slight, is sufficient... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 584 Seiten
...was only by the most determined perseverance and extreme caution that I was enabled to effect this desirable object, which was rendered the more difficult by their often frequenting the most inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies and ravines, covered with tangled masses of creepers... | |
 | 1853 - 664 Seiten
...was only by the most determined perseverance and extreme caution, that I was enabled to effect this desirable object, which was rendered the more difficult by their often frequenting ihe most inaccessible and precipitous sides of gullies and ravines, covered with tangled masses of... | |
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