 Evident indications of high instinct are manifest throughout the whole of the bower and decorations formed by this species, particularly in the manner in which the stones are placed within the bower, apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined...  Handbook to The Birds of Australia - Seite 451von John Gould - 1865Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 Seiten
...apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined firmly in their places. A row of stones diverges from the mouth of the run on each side, so as to form little paths, while the heap of decorative materials is placed at a heap before the entrance ; this arrangement is the same... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 Seiten
...apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined firmly in their places. A row of stones diverges from the mouth of the run on each side, so as to form little paths, while the heap of decorative materials is placed at a heap before the entrance ; this arrangement is the same... | |
 | John George Wood - 1831 - 802 Seiten
...apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined firmly in their places. A row of stones diverges from the mouth of the run on each side, so as to form little paths, while the heap of decorative materials is placed at a heap before the entrance ; this arrangement is the same... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1872 - 490 Seiten
...and its decorations, particularly in the manner in which the stones are placed within the enclosure, apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined...while the immense collection of decorative materials, bones, shells, etc., are placed in a heap before the entrance of the avenue— this arrangement being... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 Seiten
...bower cntly to keep the grasses with which it is lined fixed firmly in their places ; these stones from the mouth of the run on each side, so as to form little paths, while the immense cc of decorative materials, bones, shells, <fcc., are placed in a heap before the entrance of the this... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1877 - 876 Seiten
...within the bower, apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined fixed firmly in their placee. These stones diverge from the mouth of the run on each side, so as to form a little path, while the immense collection of decorative materials, bones, shells, &c-, are placed... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...its decoration; more particularly in the manner in which the stones are placed within the enclosure, apparently to keep the grasses with which it is lined...while the immense collection of decorative materials, bones, shells, and the like, are accumulated in a heap at each end of the avenue. The " bowers " of... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 636 Seiten
...the grasses with which it is lined filed firmly in their places. These stones diverge from the month of the run on each side, so as to form little paths,...while the immense collection of decorative materials, bones, shells, &c., are placed in a heap before the entrance of the avenue, this arrangement being... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1901 - 330 Seiten
...small Mammalia and other bones, bleached by exposure to the rays of the sun or from the camp fires of the natives. Evident indications of high instinct...while the immense collection of decorative materials is placed in a heap before the entrance of the avenue, the arrangement being the same at both ends.... | |
 | 1902 - 662 Seiten
...the sun or from the camp-fires of the natives. Evident indications of high instinct (? reason) appear throughout the whole of the bower and decorations...side so as to form little paths, while the immense decorative materials are placed in a heap before the entrance of the avenue — the arrangement being... | |
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