History and description of water birdsEdward Walker, 1816 |
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... Lesser Godwit ib . 1 Coot 6 Greenshank 89 7 Spotted Redshank 90 8 Redshank 91 Of the Phalarope · 131 1 Red Phalarope ib . Of the Sandpiper 94 2 Grey Phalarope 132 1 Ruff 95 2 Shore Sandpiper 99 4 Gambet 3 Green Sandpiper 100 5 Ash ...
... Lesser Godwit ib . 1 Coot 6 Greenshank 89 7 Spotted Redshank 90 8 Redshank 91 Of the Phalarope · 131 1 Red Phalarope ib . Of the Sandpiper 94 2 Grey Phalarope 132 1 Ruff 95 2 Shore Sandpiper 99 4 Gambet 3 Green Sandpiper 100 5 Ash ...
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... Lesser Imber 173 4 First Speckled Di- ver 174 Of the Petrel 217 5 Second Speckled 1 Fulmar 219 Diver 176 2 Shearwater 221 6 Red - throated Diver 178 7 Black - throated Di- 3 Stormy Petrel 224 ver 179 Of the Mergus 227 1 Goosander 229 Of ...
... Lesser Imber 173 4 First Speckled Di- ver 174 Of the Petrel 217 5 Second Speckled 1 Fulmar 219 Diver 176 2 Shearwater 221 6 Red - throated Diver 178 7 Black - throated Di- 3 Stormy Petrel 224 ver 179 Of the Mergus 227 1 Goosander 229 Of ...
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... lesser coverts , and bastard wings , dark brown ; the quills , which extend beyond the tail , are of the same colour on their exterior webs and points , except four of the middle ones , which are white on the outer webs , forming , when ...
... lesser coverts , and bastard wings , dark brown ; the quills , which extend beyond the tail , are of the same colour on their exterior webs and points , except four of the middle ones , which are white on the outer webs , forming , when ...
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... mention only a few instances of this singularly - looking species having been met with in Great. THE LONG - LEGGED PLOVER . SPOTTED RAIL , LESSER SPOTTED WATER RAIL , SKITTY ,. C 2 BRITISH BIRDS . 21 Long-legged Plover.
... mention only a few instances of this singularly - looking species having been met with in Great. THE LONG - LEGGED PLOVER . SPOTTED RAIL , LESSER SPOTTED WATER RAIL , SKITTY ,. C 2 BRITISH BIRDS . 21 Long-legged Plover.
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... lesser coverts of the wings and end of the tail are black ; the quills , in some are of a dark brown , striped less or more in the middle and in the inner webs with white : the secondary quills are white towards their base , and the ...
... lesser coverts of the wings and end of the tail are black ; the quills , in some are of a dark brown , striped less or more in the middle and in the inner webs with white : the secondary quills are white towards their base , and the ...
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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.