Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds: Described and Illustrated, with an Account of the Haunts and Habits of the Feathered Architects, and Their Times and Modes of BuildingGroombridge and Sons, 1854 - 78 стор. |
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Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds, Described and Illustrated: With an ... Henry Gardiner Adams Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2015 |
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amid April BARN OWL beautiful Bec-fin beneath Blackbird Blackcap Blue Tit bluish British Birds broods build BUNTING bush CHAFFINCH common bird curious Eagle eggs eight-twelfths Falcon feathers feed FIGURE Finch five in number flit four or five frequently garden GARDEN WARBLER genus Goldcrest grass green grey ground colour habits hair half broad half twelfths hatched haunts Hawk hedge inch long insects Kestrel Latin lined Linnet little bird MEADOW PIPIT moss Motacilla naturalists call nest Nightingale nine-twelfths OUZEL pair pale Parus Pipit placed plumage poet pretty readers reared RED-BACKED SHRIKE reddish brown reeds RING OUZEL Robin roots says scientific name SEDGE Sedge Warbler seeds seven in number seven-twelfths SHRIKE signifying sings sitting Sky Lark sometimes song Sparrow species spotted SPOTTED FLYCATCHER Stonechat stream sweet songster Sylvia tail term Thrush TITMOUSE Tomtit tree TREE PIPIT twigs Wagtail warble WARBLER WILLOW WILLOW WARBLER wings wood WOOD LARK wool WREN young
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Сторінка 12 - When merry milkmaids click the latch, And rarely smells the new-mown hay, And the cock hath sung beneath the thatch Twice or thrice his roundelay, Twice or thrice his roundelay ; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Сторінка 70 - I," said the Sparrow, "With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin." Who saw him die? "I," said the Fly, "With my little eye, I saw him die.
Сторінка 60 - THE bird that soars on highest wing Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest : — In lark and nightingale we see, What honour hath humility. When Mary chose the better part, She meekly sat at Jesus...
Сторінка 20 - With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day, How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay.
Сторінка 21 - And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs as bright as flowers, Ink-spotted over, shells of green and blue; And there I witnessed, in the summer hours, A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly, Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.
Сторінка 3 - Whose beetling cliffs o'erhang the Western main, The royal bird his lonely kingdom forms Amidst the gathering clouds and sullen storms ; Through the wide waste of air he darts his sight, And holds his sounding pinions poised for flight ; With cruel eye premeditates the war, And marks his destined victim from afar : Descending in a whirlwind to the ground, His pinions like the rush of waters sound ; The fairest of the fold he bears away, And to his nest compels the struggling prey ; He scorns the...
Сторінка 3 - High on the cliff, and feasts his young with blood. On Snowdon's rocks, or Orkney's wide domain, Whose beetling cliffs o'erhang the western main ; The royal bird his lonely kingdom forms Amidst the gathering clouds and sullen storms; Through the wide waste of air he darts his sight, And holds his sounding pinions...
Сторінка 36 - We will not plunder music of its dower, Nor turn this spot of happiness to thrall ; For melody seems hid in every flower, That blossoms near thy home. These harebells all Seem bowing with the beautiful in song ; And gaping cuckoo-flower, with spotted leaves, Seems blushing of the singing it has heard.