American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Том 3Constable and Company, 1831 |
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Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte Robert Jameson. EDINBURGH : Printed by ANDREW SHORTREED , Thistle Lane . CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD . Page American Avoset American Bittern.
Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte Robert Jameson. EDINBURGH : Printed by ANDREW SHORTREED , Thistle Lane . CONTENTS OF VOLUME THIRD . Page American Avoset American Bittern.
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... Page American Avoset American Bittern American Widgeon 137 47 198 American Woodcock 98 Ash - coloured Sandpiper 66 Bartram's Sandpiper 86 Black - bellied Darter , or Snake Bird , -female 253 Black - bellied Plover 13 Black , or Surf ...
... Page American Avoset American Bittern American Widgeon 137 47 198 American Woodcock 98 Ash - coloured Sandpiper 66 Bartram's Sandpiper 86 Black - bellied Darter , or Snake Bird , -female 253 Black - bellied Plover 13 Black , or Surf ...
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... Page Carolina Rail 110 Clapper Rail 103 Cinereous Coot 123 Darter , or Snake Bird , -male 249 Dusky Duck 200 Eider Duck , female 211 Eider Duck , - male Esquimaux Curlew Gadwall 208 61 195 Golden Eye 230 Golden Plover 11 Goosander ...
... Page Carolina Rail 110 Clapper Rail 103 Cinereous Coot 123 Darter , or Snake Bird , -male 249 Dusky Duck 200 Eider Duck , female 211 Eider Duck , - male Esquimaux Curlew Gadwall 208 61 195 Golden Eye 230 Golden Plover 11 Goosander ...
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... Page Long - legged Plover 75 Long - tailed Duck , -female 236 Long - tailed Duck , -male 233 Louisiana Heron 37 Mallard 187 Marsh Tern 151 Martinico Gallinule 122 Night Heron , or Qua Bird 39 Pied Duck 218 Pied Oyster Catcher 18 Pintail ...
... Page Long - legged Plover 75 Long - tailed Duck , -female 236 Long - tailed Duck , -male 233 Louisiana Heron 37 Mallard 187 Marsh Tern 151 Martinico Gallinule 122 Night Heron , or Qua Bird 39 Pied Duck 218 Pied Oyster Catcher 18 Pintail ...
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... Page Short - tailed Tern 158 Shoveller 185 Smew , or White Nun 247 Snipe 95 Snow Goose , male 171 Snow Goose , young - 174 Snowy Heron 35 Solitary Sandpiper 88 Sooty Tern 160 Spotted Sandpiper 89 Stormy Petrel 164 Summer Duck , or Wood ...
... Page Short - tailed Tern 158 Shoveller 185 Smew , or White Nun 247 Snipe 95 Snow Goose , male 171 Snow Goose , young - 174 Snowy Heron 35 Solitary Sandpiper 88 Sooty Tern 160 Spotted Sandpiper 89 Stormy Petrel 164 Summer Duck , or Wood ...
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Стр. 25 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 34 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
Стр. 257 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half.
Стр. 159 - ... length from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, is about three feet.
Стр. 252 - I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it would have furnished him with a subject, for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses.
Стр. 27 - ... and rubbing against each other, produce a variety of singular noises, that, with the help of a little imagination, resemble shrieks, groans, growling of bears, wolves and such like comfortable music. On the tops of the tallest of these cedars the Herons construct their nests, ten or fifteen pair sometimes occupying a particular part of the swamp. The nests are large, formed of sticks, and lined with smaller twigs ; each occupies the top of a single tree.
Стр. 166 - It is indeed an interesting sight to observe these little birds in a gale, coursing over the waves, down the declivities, up the ascents of the foaming surf that threatens to burst over their heads, sweeping along the hollow troughs of the sea, as in a sheltered valley, and again mounting with the rising billow, and just above its surface, occasionally dropping...
Стр. 57 - ... excellent food. IT is a pleasing sight at times of high winds and heavy thunder storms, to observe the numerous squadrons of these Spanish curlews driving to and fro, turning and tacking about, high up in the air, when by their various evolutions in the different and opposite currents of the wind high in the clouds, their silvery white plumage gleams and sparkles like the brightest chrystal, reflecting the sun-beams that dart upon them between the dark clouds.
Стр. 177 - ... the stand. The sportsman keeps motionless, and on his knees, with his gun cocked the whole time, and never fires till he has seen the eyes of the geese. He fires as they are going from him, then picks up another gun that lies hy him and discharges that.