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... tail was between three and four feet . The general colour of the Condor is a glossy black , but the greater part of the wing in the male is white , as is a ruff of soft loose feathers that encircles the base of the neck . The naked skin ...
... tail was between three and four feet . The general colour of the Condor is a glossy black , but the greater part of the wing in the male is white , as is a ruff of soft loose feathers that encircles the base of the neck . The naked skin ...
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... tail acted . If the bird wished to descend , the wings were for a moment collapsed ; and then when again expanded with an altered inclination , the mo- mentum gained by the rapid descent seemed to urge the bird upwards , with the even ...
... tail acted . If the bird wished to descend , the wings were for a moment collapsed ; and then when again expanded with an altered inclination , the mo- mentum gained by the rapid descent seemed to urge the bird upwards , with the even ...
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... tail is barred with grey and obscure brown ; but , in youth , the basal portion of the tail is white , with the tip dark brown ; and in this plumage it has been often described as a distinct species , by the name of the Ring - tailed ...
... tail is barred with grey and obscure brown ; but , in youth , the basal portion of the tail is white , with the tip dark brown ; and in this plumage it has been often described as a distinct species , by the name of the Ring - tailed ...
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... and corn , and stripping whole groves , woods , and extensive forests of their foliage at once , so as to make them look as naked as in winter . ' " Their 99 · · wings and tails are very long , by. 34 PASSERES . - CAPRIMULGIDE .
... and corn , and stripping whole groves , woods , and extensive forests of their foliage at once , so as to make them look as naked as in winter . ' " Their 99 · · wings and tails are very long , by. 34 PASSERES . - CAPRIMULGIDE .
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... tail consists of twelve feathers , and is for the most part forked , often to a great ex- tent ; the wings have the first quill - feather the longest . The Chimney Swallow ( Hirundo rustica , LINN . ) with its burnished upper plumage of ...
... tail consists of twelve feathers , and is for the most part forked , often to a great ex- tent ; the wings have the first quill - feather the longest . The Chimney Swallow ( Hirundo rustica , LINN . ) with its burnished upper plumage of ...
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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.