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... less calculated to resist the rapid abstraction of heat by the surrounding atmosphere . During the pro- cess of incubation , which lasts only a few weeks , the yolk is gradually absorbed into the body of the inclosed chick , forming its ...
... less calculated to resist the rapid abstraction of heat by the surrounding atmosphere . During the pro- cess of incubation , which lasts only a few weeks , the yolk is gradually absorbed into the body of the inclosed chick , forming its ...
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... less removed in form from the general clothing feathers of the body . The bone of the upper - arm ( hume- rus ) gives rise to another series of feathers , called tertiaries : these , in some birds , particularly the Plovers , Curlews ...
... less removed in form from the general clothing feathers of the body . The bone of the upper - arm ( hume- rus ) gives rise to another series of feathers , called tertiaries : these , in some birds , particularly the Plovers , Curlews ...
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... less extended into two mandibles , and incased in horny coverings of considerable den- sity , which are exceedingly diversified in form and use . " Thus in birds of prey [ the beak ] well exe- cutes the office of a dissecting knife ; in ...
... less extended into two mandibles , and incased in horny coverings of considerable den- sity , which are exceedingly diversified in form and use . " Thus in birds of prey [ the beak ] well exe- cutes the office of a dissecting knife ; in ...
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... less effective than those with which their mam- malian representatives are armed . The beak is strong , crooked , with the point acute and curving downward , and the edges trenchant and knife- like ; their feet also are very muscular ...
... less effective than those with which their mam- malian representatives are armed . The beak is strong , crooked , with the point acute and curving downward , and the edges trenchant and knife- like ; their feet also are very muscular ...
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... less degree , are naked , or clothed only with a thin down ; as is also the skin that covers the stomach . The wings are powerful and ample , and the general plumage is remarkably stiff and coarse . The Vultures are widely scattered ...
... less degree , are naked , or clothed only with a thin down ; as is also the skin that covers the stomach . The wings are powerful and ample , and the general plumage is remarkably stiff and coarse . The Vultures are widely scattered ...
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Стр. 133 - In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. On this a pair of ravens had fixed their residence for such a series of years, that the oak was distinguished by the title of the Raven Tree.
Стр. 134 - But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was in the month of February, when those birds usually sit.
Стр. 84 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes...
Стр. 265 - I remember in the place where I was a boy, with what terror this bird's note affected the whole village ; they considered it as the presage of some sad event, and generally found or made one to succeed it.
Стр. 215 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Стр. 39 - The swallow lays from four to six white eggs, dotted with red specks ; and brings out her first brood about the last week in June, or the first week in July. The progressive method by which the young are introduced into life is very amusing : first, they emerge from the shaft with difficulty enough, and often fall down into the rooms below ; for a day or so they are fed on the chimney-top, and then are conducted to the dead, leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, they are attended...
Стр. 84 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have...
Стр. 84 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all ; Stirring the air with such a harmony, That should you close your eyes, you might almost Forget it was not day...
Стр. 38 - ... as I have often observed with some degree of wonder. Five or six or more feet down the chimney does this little bird begin to form her nest about the middle of May, which consists, like that of the house-martin, of a crust or shell composed of dirt or mud, mixed with short pieces of straw to render it tough and permanent...
Стр. 265 - Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jacksnipe. But of all these sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.