 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,...  The Architecture of Birds - Сторінка 17автори: James Rennie - 1833 - 392 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 стор.
...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ;... | |
 | Linnean Society of London - 1825 - 666 стор.
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as 1 have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." Nat. Hist . of Selborne, Letter 37. p. 94. Mr. Wilson, another accurate observer of Nature,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 стор.
...foot, as I have the greatest reason to believe it does chafers, (Zantheumia solstifialis, LEACH, us.,) I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw*.' Mr. Dillon has recently controverted this opinion ; his observations leading him to suppose... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 стор.
...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.* These peculiar birds can only be watched and observed for two hours in the twenty-four, and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 стор.
...by the bill, in the manner of owls when disturbed.— WJ more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them, I mean, have forsaken us sooner this year than usual... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 280 стор.
...part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chaffers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." This last opinion of White's has been much controverted: some have supposed that the movement... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 стор.
...part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chaffers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." This last opinion of White's has been much controverted: some have supposed that the movement... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 406 стор.
...European night-jar were designed to enable it to secure beetles (Zantheumia solxtitialis, &c.), oh which he observed it preying. " The circumstance,"...(Vibrissce). For this purpose, he thinks the entire tnechanism of the leg, foot, toe, and claw, adapted with wonderful precision; while for the seizing... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 410 стор.
...pleased me most was, that I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg when on the wifig, and, by a bend of the head, deliver Somewhat into...considering the chief use of the serrated claw to be thecombing or dresslngthe bristles (Vibrissa). For this purpose, he thinks the entire mechanism of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 стор.
...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, * We find the following additional information... | |
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