 | Prideaux John Selby - 1833 - Страниц: 596
...engaged in battle with a CarrionCrow ; so successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually held the Crow, till it...parent birds, and with the above singular success. By a careful attention to diet, Partridges may be easily reared in confinement, and become very tame*,... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - Страниц: 360
...engaged in battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually held the crow, till it...with the above singular success." Such displays are, howVol. ip 435. ever, comparatively seldom witnessed or indeed exercised, for nature has implanted... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - Страниц: 290
...engaged in battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually held the crow, till it...with the above singular success." Such displays are, howVol. ip 435. and in one and twenty acre breck of Swedes, he bagged thirty-five and a half brace... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - Страниц: 604
...successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually held the crow, till he was seized and taken from them by the spectator of...one of these, had been attacked by the parent birds with the above singular success." Besides the Common Partridge, a species termed the RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE,... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 436
...held the crow, till it was seized and taken from them by the spectator of the scene. Upon search, tbe young birds (very lately hatched) were found concealed...nature has implanted another device in the greater numbers of this family, in which the organs of defence are in reality weak, against their many astailants,... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 786
...spectator of the scene. Upon search/^th* young birds (very lately hatched) were found concealed among the Grass. It would appear, therefore, that the Crow,...parent birds, and with the above singular success." Instances have also been known of the domestic cock keeping the Sparrow Hawk a close prisoner under... | |
 | British birds - 1840 - Страниц: 326
...being made, the young birds, very lately hatched, were found concealed among the grass. It appeared that the crow, a mortal enemy to all kinds of young...attempting to carry off one of these, had been attacked, and that successfully, by the parent-birds. The devices of the partridge to save its brood have often... | |
 | William Jardine - 1844 - Страниц: 334
...carnon-crow ; so successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually beld the crow, till it was seized, and taken from them...with the above singular success." Such displays are, bowVol. ip 435. ч ever, comparatively seldom witnessed or indeed exercised, for nature has implanted... | |
 | Sarah Lee - 1844 - Страниц: 520
...and taken from them. Upon search, the young birds, very lately hatched, were found concealed among the grass. It would appear, therefore, that the crow,...these, had been attacked by the parent birds, and with this singular result." Quails are altogether smaller than partridges; and the common •epecies is... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - Страниц: 360
...till it was seized and taken from them by the spectator of the scene. Upon search, the young birds, lately hatched, were found concealed amongst the grass....parent birds, and with the above singular success." In similar instances, of the heroism of instinct, may be traced the affinity of all animal classes... | |
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... so successful and so absorbed were they in the issue of the contest, that they actually held the crow, till it was seized, and taken from them by the spectator of the scene. Upon search, the young birds (very lately hatched) were found concealed amongst... 
