| 1832 - Страниц: 424
...great numbers, sailing very high in the air over lakes and rivers. " I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...Fear River, and, southerly, East and West Florida. American Ornithology. iart. DISTANCES OF THE PIANETS FROM THE SUN. — The vast extent of the solar... | |
| 1832 - Страниц: 428
...great numbers, sailing very high in the air over lakes and rivers. " I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses. 1 believe thfey feed entirely on fish, for their flesh smells and tastes intolerably strong of it :... | |
| 1911 - Страниц: 994
...ago men read about the wonders of the savage and unexplored South, 'I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses.' Possibly so, for Anhinga is sufficiently fantastic-looking to do credit to the wildest flights of fancy... | |
| Willis Stanley Blatchley - 1902 - Страниц: 286
...great numbers, sailing very high in the air, over lakes and rivers. "I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses. I believe it feeds entirely on fish, for its flesh smells and tastes intolerably strong of it; it is scarcely... | |
| Willis Stanley Blatchley - 1902 - Страниц: 286
...subject for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses. I believe it feeds entirely on fish, for its flesh smells and tastes intolerably strong of it ; it is scarcely to be eaten unless constrained by insufferable hunger."* Turning one of the many bends of the river a low, flat tract... | |
| John Livingston Lowes - 1927 - Страниц: 694
...seen except sometimes the silvery tip of their Tail. Bartram hazards the guess that 'if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses.' * And with a dubious 'perhaps/ which is, I think, unique in the annals of his projects, Coleridge files... | |
| William Bartram - 1928 - Страниц: 424
...great numbers, sailing very high in the air, over lakes and rivers. I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses. I believe it feeds intirely on fish, for its flesh smells and tastes intolerably strong of it; it is scarcely... | |
| Conger Beasley - 1990 - Страниц: 252
...anhinga is a graceful creature about which William Bartram observed, "I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses " South of Fargo, near the Georgia-Florida line, the swamps receded and the river flowed between clearly... | |
| William Bartram - 1998 - Страниц: 826
...great numbers, sailing very high in the air, over lakes and rivers. I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it...and entertaining metamorphoses. I believe they feed intirely on fish, for their flesh smells and tastes intolerably strong of it, it is scarcely to be... | |
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