A familiar history of birds |
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... hour together to the repeated and successive wailings of these wild , melancholy birds ; first , the scream is faint , and so distant as scarcely to reach the ear ; then it increases as the bird passes nearer - till , as it continues ...
... hour together to the repeated and successive wailings of these wild , melancholy birds ; first , the scream is faint , and so distant as scarcely to reach the ear ; then it increases as the bird passes nearer - till , as it continues ...
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... hour ? or as 3 : 100 3600 the number of yards required , which will be 3600 X 100 or 120,000 yards , which will amount to ( as there are 1760 yards in a mile ) about sixty miles an hour . 3 Again , suppose some Starlings are seen ...
... hour ? or as 3 : 100 3600 the number of yards required , which will be 3600 X 100 or 120,000 yards , which will amount to ( as there are 1760 yards in a mile ) about sixty miles an hour . 3 Again , suppose some Starlings are seen ...
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... hour . The bird was seen hastening on its way over a valley in the Pyrenees , and the number of seconds was observed ... hour . We can scarcely , indeed , calculate or limit the speed which can be produced by the effort of a wing's vibra ...
... hour . The bird was seen hastening on its way over a valley in the Pyrenees , and the number of seconds was observed ... hour . We can scarcely , indeed , calculate or limit the speed which can be produced by the effort of a wing's vibra ...
Стр. 73
... hour we saw bees and flies , sometimes hover- ing round the carriages , sometimes settling , then , when dis- turbed , flying to the right or left , in an irregular course , but still keeping up , without the slightest appearance of ...
... hour we saw bees and flies , sometimes hover- ing round the carriages , sometimes settling , then , when dis- turbed , flying to the right or left , in an irregular course , but still keeping up , without the slightest appearance of ...
Стр. 74
... hours ; but , as the nearest part of the country known to produce coffee was some hundreds of miles distant , it was calculated that they must have flown at the rate of sixty or seventy miles per hour . But besides this great speed ...
... hours ; but , as the nearest part of the country known to produce coffee was some hundreds of miles distant , it was calculated that they must have flown at the rate of sixty or seventy miles per hour . But besides this great speed ...
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Albatross amongst animals appearance approach attack beak bill birds of prey body breed brood cage called catch caught claws close colour confined Cormorant Crow Cuckoo dart distance Ducks Eagle eggs Falcon favourite feathers feed feet fish flew flight flocks frequently Gannet genus Goose ground Gull habits hatched Hawk head Heron hole hour insects instance island Jacana Jackdaw killed known legs length live mandible miles mode naturalists nearly nest never night observed occasionally Ostrich Owls pair particular Passerine peculiar perch Pheasant Pigeons plumage prey Raven reared remain resembling rocks Rooks scarcely Scotland season seemed seen seize short Shrike singular Sir Edward Parry small birds soon sort South Stack Sparrow species spot supposed Swallows Table taken Thrush Titmouse trees tribe usually Vulture watch wild wings Woodcocks yards young birds
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