The Architecture of BirdsCharles Knight, 1833 - 392 стор. |
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James Rennie. be seen thus trimming themselves . A short time after they are able to open their eyes , while the down which covers them when hatched has not begun to be replaced by feathers , we have , in .nu- merous instances , seen ...
James Rennie. be seen thus trimming themselves . A short time after they are able to open their eyes , while the down which covers them when hatched has not begun to be replaced by feathers , we have , in .nu- merous instances , seen ...
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... able that Birds constitute more than two - thirds of his story . He saw a wheat - ear hopping about a pile of stones ; a flock of lapwings throwing their fantastic somersets in the air , and one of them tumbling along as if her wing had ...
... able that Birds constitute more than two - thirds of his story . He saw a wheat - ear hopping about a pile of stones ; a flock of lapwings throwing their fantastic somersets in the air , and one of them tumbling along as if her wing had ...
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... able to bore the stubborn sand - bank , without entirely disabling herself ; yet with these feeble instru- ments have I seen a pair of them make great dis- patch ; and could remark how much they had scooped that day , by the fresh sand ...
... able to bore the stubborn sand - bank , without entirely disabling herself ; yet with these feeble instru- ments have I seen a pair of them make great dis- patch ; and could remark how much they had scooped that day , by the fresh sand ...
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... able to decide the question , we think Wilson's account the most plausible . The recorded fact , which he actually observed , cannot surely be overturned by the general remark that it is preposterous to suppose these birds furnished ...
... able to decide the question , we think Wilson's account the most plausible . The recorded fact , which he actually observed , cannot surely be overturned by the general remark that it is preposterous to suppose these birds furnished ...
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... able motive arising from mutual advantage , but to be rather disadvantageous from the pasture being exhausted by the crowd of feeders , we must con- sider these sheep as domesticated , and , of course , in different circumstances from ...
... able motive arising from mutual advantage , but to be rather disadvantageous from the pasture being exhausted by the crowd of feeders , we must con- sider these sheep as domesticated , and , of course , in different circumstances from ...
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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.