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Сторінка 158
After the nest has been finished and laying begun , one egg is deposited each
morning , with an occasional intermission ... I have found incubated sets of from
ten to nineteen eggs , and reports of nests containing twenty - five have reached
me ...
After the nest has been finished and laying begun , one egg is deposited each
morning , with an occasional intermission ... I have found incubated sets of from
ten to nineteen eggs , and reports of nests containing twenty - five have reached
me ...
Сторінка 161
A nest in a hollow oak near Palo Alto , visited May 13 , 1894 , contained one egg ,
three young owls and five gophers . The gophers were arranged in a row at one
side of the cavity , their headless necks all directed away from its centre , where ...
A nest in a hollow oak near Palo Alto , visited May 13 , 1894 , contained one egg ,
three young owls and five gophers . The gophers were arranged in a row at one
side of the cavity , their headless necks all directed away from its centre , where ...
Сторінка 169
Nests of the previous year not infrequently are relined and used , as are also
those of other species , such as the brown towhee . The labor of nest building
falls entirely on the female , but the male accompanies her on all her ...
Nests of the previous year not infrequently are relined and used , as are also
those of other species , such as the brown towhee . The labor of nest building
falls entirely on the female , but the male accompanies her on all her ...
Сторінка 170
Noon : One young bird on edge of nest , three in nest . Later : Four young in nest .
5 P.M .: One young bird in vine a foot from nest . 6 P.M .: Two young in vine , then
back in nest . 7 P.M .: Three of the young have flown to neighboring trees ; one ...
Noon : One young bird on edge of nest , three in nest . Later : Four young in nest .
5 P.M .: One young bird in vine a foot from nest . 6 P.M .: Two young in vine , then
back in nest . 7 P.M .: Three of the young have flown to neighboring trees ; one ...
Сторінка 179
When the eggs are taken the birds often remove the nest , bit by bit , to a new
location . The following notes show that two broods are reared in the same nest :
April 24 , 1888 : Found bush tit's nest in live oak , ten feet from ground . May 4 :
After ...
When the eggs are taken the birds often remove the nest , bit by bit , to a new
location . The following notes show that two broods are reared in the same nest :
April 24 , 1888 : Found bush tit's nest in live oak , ten feet from ground . May 4 :
After ...
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Сторінка 164 - ... whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Сторінка 106 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Сторінка 106 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Сторінка 104 - He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our...
Сторінка 103 - ... that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, [begun at a distinguished period and...
Сторінка 105 - He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Сторінка 104 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.
Сторінка 104 - Britain is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations, among which appears no solitary fact to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, but all have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.
Сторінка 244 - From the evidence it would appear that the submergence took place at the end of the fourteenth or the beginning of the fifteenth century.
Сторінка 107 - We might have been a. free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity. Be it so, since they will have it. The road to happiness and to glory is open to us too. We will tread it apart from them, and acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our eternal separation.
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| Назва | Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Томи 37 – 38 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, American Philosophical Society |
| Автор | American Philosophical Society |
| Видавець | American Philosophical Society., 1808 |
| Оригінал із | Гарвардський університет |
| Оцифровано | 28 бер. 2007 |
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