American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Том 3Constable and Company, 1831 |
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... particularly in moonlight , their cries are frequently heard with equal violence , both in the spring and fall . From this circumstance , and their flying about both after dusk and before dawn , it appears probable that they see better ...
... particularly in moonlight , their cries are frequently heard with equal violence , both in the spring and fall . From this circumstance , and their flying about both after dusk and before dawn , it appears probable that they see better ...
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... particularly attached to newly ploughed fields , where it forms its nest of a few slight materials , as slightly put together . The female lays four eggs , large for the size of the bird , of a light olive colour dashed with black ; and ...
... particularly attached to newly ploughed fields , where it forms its nest of a few slight materials , as slightly put together . The female lays four eggs , large for the size of the bird , of a light olive colour dashed with black ; and ...
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... particularly the turnstone , are hovering about feasting on the delicious fare . The dead bodies of the animals themselves are hauled up in wagons for manure , and when placed at the hills of corn , in planting time , are said to enrich ...
... particularly the turnstone , are hovering about feasting on the delicious fare . The dead bodies of the animals themselves are hauled up in wagons for manure , and when placed at the hills of corn , in planting time , are said to enrich ...
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... particularly on and near Egg Island , where they are known by the name of storks . The younger birds are easily distinguished from the rest by the brownness of their plumage . Some linger in these marshes the whole winter , setting out ...
... particularly on and near Egg Island , where they are known by the name of storks . The younger birds are easily distinguished from the rest by the brownness of their plumage . Some linger in these marshes the whole winter , setting out ...
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... particularly in the conformation of the windpipe , which enters the breast - bone in a cavity fitted to receive it , and after several turns goes out again at the same place , and thence descends to the lungs . Unlike the herons , they ...
... particularly in the conformation of the windpipe , which enters the breast - bone in a cavity fitted to receive it , and after several turns goes out again at the same place , and thence descends to the lungs . Unlike the herons , they ...
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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.