Birds and bird-life, by F.T. Buckland and other naturalists |
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... bills ; for you must know that Mr. Mallard is a great dandy ; he has a very beautiful coat of feathers to look after , and as the biped dandy has to dress his whiskers , so Mr. Mallard also has to keep the two jaunty curling feathers in ...
... bills ; for you must know that Mr. Mallard is a great dandy ; he has a very beautiful coat of feathers to look after , and as the biped dandy has to dress his whiskers , so Mr. Mallard also has to keep the two jaunty curling feathers in ...
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... bills the minute creatures out of the mud . It is very remarkable how the food of the bird affects the flesh . The " London - fed " ducks are hardly eatable , and they differ widely from the wild duck , who gets his living from the ...
... bills the minute creatures out of the mud . It is very remarkable how the food of the bird affects the flesh . The " London - fed " ducks are hardly eatable , and they differ widely from the wild duck , who gets his living from the ...
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... bills could manage to pull out . But besides these we frequently noticed a pair of nuthatches , which not only chipped away lustily to lay bare covered dainties , but used the cracks in which to fix , as in a vice , the favourite food ...
... bills could manage to pull out . But besides these we frequently noticed a pair of nuthatches , which not only chipped away lustily to lay bare covered dainties , but used the cracks in which to fix , as in a vice , the favourite food ...
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... bill against a dead bough , or some old pales , calling it a jar - bird . I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it proved to be the Sitta Europea ( nuthatch ) . Mr. Ray says that the less spotted woodpecker does the same . This ...
... bill against a dead bough , or some old pales , calling it a jar - bird . I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it proved to be the Sitta Europea ( nuthatch ) . Mr. Ray says that the less spotted woodpecker does the same . This ...
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... " they cannot fly at a less rate than a hundred miles in an hour ; " and that , to shoot with any chance of success , aim must be taken " ten or twelve feet before their bills ; " but when flying across the 44 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
... " they cannot fly at a less rate than a hundred miles in an hour ; " and that , to shoot with any chance of success , aim must be taken " ten or twelve feet before their bills ; " but when flying across the 44 BIRDS AND BIRD - LIFE .
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Сторінка 70 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Сторінка 144 - Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Сторінка 202 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Сторінка 142 - But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark; for the waters were on the face of the whole earth.
Сторінка 26 - Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds...
Сторінка 22 - Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still!
Сторінка 232 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Сторінка 19 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Сторінка 25 - Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Сторінка 29 - I will bless the Lord at all times : His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord : The humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. 0 magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.