A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Band 3Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... approach , her note becomes earnest and alarming , and her outcries are redoubled . " No inhabitants of a yard seem possessed of such a va- riety of expression , and so copious a language , as common poultry . Take a chicken of four or ...
... approach , her note becomes earnest and alarming , and her outcries are redoubled . " No inhabitants of a yard seem possessed of such a va- riety of expression , and so copious a language , as common poultry . Take a chicken of four or ...
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... ; and hence all those of the feathered kind which approach to the size of the Ostrich , such as the touyou , the cassowa- ry , the dodo , neither possess , nor can possess , the faculty of flight . The head and bill of the Ostrich.
... ; and hence all those of the feathered kind which approach to the size of the Ostrich , such as the touyou , the cassowa- ry , the dodo , neither possess , nor can possess , the faculty of flight . The head and bill of the Ostrich.
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... approach and take them at pleasure . In the same manner the savages of America disguise themselves as a roebuck , in order to sur- prise that animal . Ostriches are sometimes bred in flocks , for they are ea- sily tamed . In this ...
... approach and take them at pleasure . In the same manner the savages of America disguise themselves as a roebuck , in order to sur- prise that animal . Ostriches are sometimes bred in flocks , for they are ea- sily tamed . In this ...
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... approach sufficiently near . The Touyou , though not so large as the Ostrich , is only second to it in magnitude . It is by much the largest bird in the New Continent , and is generally found to be six feet high , measuring from its ...
... approach sufficiently near . The Touyou , though not so large as the Ostrich , is only second to it in magnitude . It is by much the largest bird in the New Continent , and is generally found to be six feet high , measuring from its ...
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... approach , looking upon me with an undaunted eye . I fired , and he fell ; before I reached him he was dead . With what delight I surveyed this magnificent bird ! Had the finest salmon ever pleased him as he did me ? —Never . I ran and ...
... approach , looking upon me with an undaunted eye . I fired , and he fell ; before I reached him he was dead . With what delight I surveyed this magnificent bird ! Had the finest salmon ever pleased him as he did me ? —Never . I ran and ...
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America animals appears ash colour Bald Eagle Barn Swallow beak beautiful bill bird birds of prey blue body breed brown builds bushes called Carrion Crow chiefly cock common covered crest Crow dusky Eagle eggs England Europe Falcon favourite feathers feed feet female Fieldfare fish five inches flesh flies flight flocks FLYCATCHER frequently genus glossed grass green ground habits half long Hawk head and neck Heron hole inches in length inches long inhabits insects Jack Snipe kind known lark larvæ lays legs loud male manner marshes native nest numbers olive orange colour Ostrich pale Pigeons Pine Grosbeak PLOVER plumage prey quadrupeds quills reddish resembles rivers SANDPIPER season seen seldom side sometimes song species spotted spring streaked swallow tail throat thrush titmouse trees tribe Turkey upper Vultures WARBLER Whip-poor-Will whole wings winter WOODPECKER woods yellow young
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Seite 322 - ... him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia nightingale or red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat, by redoubling his exertions.
Seite 384 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
Seite 57 - Tringae coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of nature. High over all these hovers one, whose action instantly arrests his whole attention.
Seite 56 - ... to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes and ocean, deep below him ; he appears indifferent to the little localities of change of seasons; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold; and thence descend at will to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.
Seite 10 - A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...
Seite 116 - ... sailing around as before. Now his attention is again arrested, and he descends with great rapidity ; but ere he reaches the surface, shoots off on another course, as if ashamed that a second victim had escaped him. He now sails at a short height above the surface, and by a zigzag descent, and without seeming to dip his feet in the water, seizes a fish, which, A great ash-coloured* butcher-bird was shot last winter in Tisted Park, and a red-backed butcher-bird at Selborne.
Seite 213 - Many trees two feet in diameter, I observed, were broken off at no great distance from the ground; and the branches of many of the largest and tallest had given way, as if the forest had been swept by a tornado. Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception.
Seite 57 - ... as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Seite 322 - ... injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity. He repeats the tune taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully ; he runs over the...
Seite 174 - ... strutting and wheeling about with great stateliness. After a few manoeuvres of this kind, he begins to strike with his stiffened wings in short and quick strokes, which become more and more rapid until they run into each other as has been already described.