The Architecture of BirdsCharles Knight, 1833 - 392 стор. |
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... remaining . This curious subject may be illustrated by a cir- cumstance observed by the traveller just quoted , in an eagle ( Gypaëtos barbatus , STORR ) which he shot in Abyssinia . " Upon laying hold , " says he , " of his monstrous ...
... remaining . This curious subject may be illustrated by a cir- cumstance observed by the traveller just quoted , in an eagle ( Gypaëtos barbatus , STORR ) which he shot in Abyssinia . " Upon laying hold , " says he , " of his monstrous ...
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... remaining bird usually finds a second mate . The cock of the mi grative species Montagu thinks never quits the place he first resorts to , but attracts the females by his song ; and hence , he conceives , it is probable that such ...
... remaining bird usually finds a second mate . The cock of the mi grative species Montagu thinks never quits the place he first resorts to , but attracts the females by his song ; and hence , he conceives , it is probable that such ...
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... remaining little injured , and even to the last being almost as strongly defined as when the eggs are first laid t . From these markings being for the most part either exclusively or more numerous at the larger end of the egg . it would ...
... remaining little injured , and even to the last being almost as strongly defined as when the eggs are first laid t . From these markings being for the most part either exclusively or more numerous at the larger end of the egg . it would ...
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... remaining part of the process , the yolk becomes gradually thinner and paler by the intermixture of the inner white ; while an immense number of fringe - like vessels , with flaky terminations of a singularly peculiar structure , are ...
... remaining part of the process , the yolk becomes gradually thinner and paler by the intermixture of the inner white ; while an immense number of fringe - like vessels , with flaky terminations of a singularly peculiar structure , are ...
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... remaining in the same position , stick to the shell . of In order to understand how a chick may be thus glued to its shell it will be necessary to recollect , that between its body and the lining membrane is the white of the egg , or ...
... remaining in the same position , stick to the shell . of In order to understand how a chick may be thus glued to its shell it will be necessary to recollect , that between its body and the lining membrane is the white of the egg , or ...
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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.