 The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs...  Wonders of the animal kingdom. Birds - Стр. 215авторы: Wonders - 1848 - Страниц: 484Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1819 - Страниц: 424
...•в which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, .-nd eagles, were Railing about in grc;it numbers, and seizing the squabs from their nests at...crowding and fluttering multitudes of Pigeons, their wing» roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber, for now the axemen... | |
 | 1821 - Страниц: 444
...young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in...roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber ; for now the axemen were at work cutting down those trees that seemed to be most crowded... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - Страниц: 372
...young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in...roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber ; for now the axe-men were at work, cutting down those trees that seemed to be most... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - Страниц: 472
...young squab Pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, Buzzards, and Eagles, were sailing about in...roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber ; for now the axe-men were at work, cutting down those trees that seemed to be most... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1840 - Страниц: 236
...young squab Pigeons which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of Hogs were fattening; Hawks, Buzzards, and Eagles were sailing about in...roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber; for now the axemen were at work, cutting down those trees which seemed to be most crowded... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1842 - Страниц: 634
...young squab-pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles were sailing about in...the squabs from their nests at pleasure ; while from MYRIADS OF PIGEONS. 331 twenty feet upwards, to the tops of the trees, the view through the woods presented... | |
 | Journal - 1844 - Страниц: 296
...and young pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the young from their nests at pleasure, while, from twenty feet upwards to the top of the trees, the view... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - Страниц: 510
...buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, devouring the young ones as they chose, while from twenty feet upwards, to the tops of the...roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber ; for the axemen were at work, cutting down those trees that seemed to be most crowded... | |
 | 1848 - Страниц: 808
...young? squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards and eagles were sailing about in great...from their nests at pleasure, while from twenty feet upward to the tops of the trees, the view through the woods presented a perpetual tumult of crowding... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - Страниц: 356
...young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from the nests at pleasure ; while, from twenty feet upwards to the top of the trees, the view through the... | |
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