 At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them, and utters a shriek so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal sound. Now, it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur-dog;...  The Birds of America - Seite 194von John James Audubon - 1840Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 Seiten
...frontiers, where the species abounds. Differences of locality are no security against its depredations, for it occurs in the highest! mountainous districts,...together, that they might be mistaken for the last gtrrglings of a murdered person, striving in vain to call for assistance; at another time, when not... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 396 Seiten
...describes the cry of this owl ns fearful. He saya, " It suddenly alights on the top of a fern-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them,...if you heard the barking of a cur-dog ; again, the nutcs are so rough and mingled together, that they might be mistaken for the last gurglings of a murdered... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 Seiten
...describes the cry of this owl as fearful. He says, " It suddenly alights on the top of a fern-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them,...so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal Bound. Now, it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur-dog ; again, the notes are so rough and mingled... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 Seiten
...the top of a fi'in-stake or a di-iid stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them, and utters a sh-.iek so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal...together, that they might be mistaken for the last guT'jlkigs of a murdered person, striving in vain to call for assistance." — £B. devour, after the... | |
 | 1850 - 392 Seiten
...top of a fence stake or a dead stump, shakes his feathers, THE AMERICAN JERBOA, OR DEER MOUSE. 161 arranges them, and utters a shriek so horrid that...sound. Now, it seems as if you heard the barking of" a cur; again, the notes are so rough and mingled together, that they might be mistaken for the last gurglings... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 Seiten
...horrid, that the woods echo its dismal sounds ; now it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur dog; again, the notes are so rough and mingled together, that they might be mistaken for the last gurgling of a dying person." There are seasons when the great-horned owl appears in a more pleasing... | |
 | John Frost - 1850 - 558 Seiten
...on the prey beneath. At other times it suddenly alights on the top of a fence, stake, or dead Btump, and utters a shriek so horrid, that' the woods around echo to its dismal sound. During the utterance of the deep gurgling HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA. VIRGINIAN HORNED OWL. cries so well... | |
 | 1857 - 526 Seiten
...if shot dead, on the prey beneath. At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a feoce stake, or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them,...sound. Now it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur dog ; again, the notes are so rough and mingled together, that they might be mistaken for the last... | |
 | Leonard Pearson, Benjamin Harry Warren - 1897 - 1114 Seiten
...if shot dead, on the prey beneath. At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them,...sound. Now, it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur dug: again the notes are so rough and mingled together that they might be mistaken for the last... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Dept. of Agriculture - 1897 - 1104 Seiten
...if shot dead, on the prey beneath. At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence stake or a dead stump, shakes its* feathers, arranges them,...its dismal sound. Now, it seems as if you heard the harking of a cur dog; again the notes are so rough :m<l mingled together that they might be mistaken... | |
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