The Architecture of BirdsCharles Knight, 1833 - Всего страниц: 392 |
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... Sometimes builds in wells and coal - pits Nests on garden - shears , and on a stuffed owl Chain of nests in a chimney Illustrated from mason - bees CHAPTER VI . - MASON - BIRDS , continued . The flamingo Its singular pyramidal nest ...
... Sometimes builds in wells and coal - pits Nests on garden - shears , and on a stuffed owl Chain of nests in a chimney Illustrated from mason - bees CHAPTER VI . - MASON - BIRDS , continued . The flamingo Its singular pyramidal nest ...
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... Sometimes taken for a separate species ib . 358 Cuckoo taken for a hawk and for a pigeon 359 Young cuckoo taken for a night - jar 360 Nestling of the American night - hawk 361 Wilson's account of the whip - poor - will ib . Testimony of ...
... Sometimes taken for a separate species ib . 358 Cuckoo taken for a hawk and for a pigeon 359 Young cuckoo taken for a night - jar 360 Nestling of the American night - hawk 361 Wilson's account of the whip - poor - will ib . Testimony of ...
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... sometimes seen pecking about the gland in question . But the observing of a bird thus en- gaged , so far from authorizing the received conclu- sion , might have shown that the point of the bill could never squeeze out enough of fluid ...
... sometimes seen pecking about the gland in question . But the observing of a bird thus en- gaged , so far from authorizing the received conclu- sion , might have shown that the point of the bill could never squeeze out enough of fluid ...
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... sometimes fatal engorgement * . The remark of Blumenbach † that the gland is largest in aquatic birds , contains a generalization not warranted by facts ; for grebes , divers , and such as want tails , have the gland much smaller ...
... sometimes fatal engorgement * . The remark of Blumenbach † that the gland is largest in aquatic birds , contains a generalization not warranted by facts ; for grebes , divers , and such as want tails , have the gland much smaller ...
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... sometimes fatal † . " One of the most remarkable propensities that manifest themselves in young birds , " says the Hon . and Rev. W. Herbert , " is the ardent desire of washing themselves , in some species , and of dusting themselves ...
... sometimes fatal † . " One of the most remarkable propensities that manifest themselves in young birds , " says the Hon . and Rev. W. Herbert , " is the ardent desire of washing themselves , in some species , and of dusting themselves ...
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Стр. 288 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Стр. 287 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled 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...
Стр. 48 - Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; and say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar...
Стр. 17 - I saw it distinctly more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.
Стр. 288 - 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...
Стр. 330 - ... together on a trial of skill, each striving to produce his utmost effect, so perfect are his imitations. He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates ; even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mates, or dive with precipitation into the depths of thickets, at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrow-hawk.
Стр. 329 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises pre-eminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Стр. 212 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Стр. 287 - 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. 214 - The acquitted parents see their soaring race, And, once rejoicing, never know them more. High from the summit of a craggy cliff. Hung o'er the deep, such as amazing frowns On utmost Hilda's shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young.