History and description of water birdsEdward Walker, 1816 |
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... lay ten eggs and hatch them ; but the roe of a herring is said to contain ten thousand . As a + " Fishes are the most voracious animals in nature . Many species prey indiscriminately on every thing digestible that comes in their way ...
... lay ten eggs and hatch them ; but the roe of a herring is said to contain ten thousand . As a + " Fishes are the most voracious animals in nature . Many species prey indiscriminately on every thing digestible that comes in their way ...
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... lays four or five eggs of a greenish grey colour , spotted with black , which she leaves during the day exposed to the influence of the sun , and is care- ful to sit upon them herself only during the night and in bad weather . The young ...
... lays four or five eggs of a greenish grey colour , spotted with black , which she leaves during the day exposed to the influence of the sun , and is care- ful to sit upon them herself only during the night and in bad weather . The young ...
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... lays from six to eight eggs . The young brood do not long require the fostering care of the mother , but as soon as they are hatched , the whole of the little black shape- less family scramble away from her , take to the water ...
... lays from six to eight eggs . The young brood do not long require the fostering care of the mother , but as soon as they are hatched , the whole of the little black shape- less family scramble away from her , take to the water ...
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... same kind of materials , and nearly of the same form , as that of the common Wren , and lays four or five eggs , which are white , lightly blushed with red . THE KINGFISHER . ( Alcedo ispida , Lin . -. 32 BRITISH BIRDS .
... same kind of materials , and nearly of the same form , as that of the common Wren , and lays four or five eggs , which are white , lightly blushed with red . THE KINGFISHER . ( Alcedo ispida , Lin . -. 32 BRITISH BIRDS .
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... rare visitants : Pennant mentions that a flock of them migrated into the marshes near Yar- mouth in April , 1774 . Like the Rooks and the Herons , they build their nests on the tops of large trees , lay three or BRITISH BIRDS . 39.
... rare visitants : Pennant mentions that a flock of them migrated into the marshes near Yar- mouth in April , 1774 . Like the Rooks and the Herons , they build their nests on the tops of large trees , lay three or BRITISH BIRDS . 39.
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appearance ash colour barred belly birds breadth breast breed British British birds brownish ash Buff Buffon cheeks cinereous common Common Snipe Corn Crake dark brown Duck dull dusky edged with white eggs feathers female fens fish flocks fore Geese genus glossy GODWIT Goosander Goose greater coverts Grebe green Greenland grey ground Gull hatch head Heron Heysham hinder Iceland inches in length inches long irides Isles kind Kittiwake lakes lead colour Lin.-Le Lincolnshire male Mallard mandible marked marshes measures middle mouth nearly neck nest northern nostrils numbers ornithologists ounces pale Pennant placed plumage pounds primary quills quills reddish rump rust colour rusty SANDPIPER scapulars season secondary quills shores shot sides Smew Snipe species specimens Spitzbergen St Kilda streaked tail coverts thighs throat tipped with white toes tribe Tringa upper mandible vent Water Rail webs weighs white spots wild wing coverts winter yellow yellowish young
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Стр. 109 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Стр. xiv - Or where the Northern Ocean., in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Стр. 90 - The length of this bird, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is...
Стр. 44 - Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail...
Стр. xviii - Eternal Maker has ordain'd The powers of man; we feel within ourselves His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Стр. 191 - 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. 295 - The banks of the lake, for about ten yards on each side of this ditch (or pipe, as it is called) are kept clear from reeds, coarse herbage, &c. in order that the fowl may get on them to sit and dress themselves. Across this ditch, poles on each side, close to the edge of the ditch, are driven into the ground, and the tops bent to each other and tied fast. These poles at the entrance form an arch, from the top of which to the water is about ten feet.
Стр. 296 - ... there is then no further occasion for shelter. Were it not for these shootings, the fowl that remain about the mouth of the pipe would be alarmed, (if the person driving the fowl already under the net should be exposed) and would become so shy as to forsake the place entirely.
Стр. xv - Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space, — that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
Стр. 202 - ... and never moved from it, though they have changed their station often.