 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds ia very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...the season of nidification much diversified, as I havo been often assured by a curious observer of Nature who long resided at Gibraltar, where, eagles... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 392 Seiten
...No bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing, and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes . of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 Seiten
...No bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing, and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are'rather silent.t The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 268 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...said, but much is meant and understood. The notes ol the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season ol nidification much diversified,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 620 Seiten
...silent The language of birds is very ancient, and, iike other ancient modes of speech, very elupticai ; little is said, but much is meant and understood. The notes of the easle-kind are shrill and piercing : and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | GILBERT WHITE - 1900 - 552 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
 | Bradford Torrey - 1903 - 306 Seiten
...the jay-English dictionary that I have been desiderating. " The language of birds," said White, " is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...little is said, but much is meant and understood." The blue jay, I am confident, though I do not profess to be a jay scholar, makes a large use of interjections.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 Seiten
...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have... | |
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The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical ; little is said, but much is meant and understood. 
