History and description of water birdsEdward Walker, 1816 |
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... light and heat , poured forward in thou- sands of myriads , in multitudes which set all calculation at defiance . The flocks of sea birds , for their numbers , baffle * The same happens in the southern hemisphere , by the melting of the ...
... light and heat , poured forward in thou- sands of myriads , in multitudes which set all calculation at defiance . The flocks of sea birds , for their numbers , baffle * The same happens in the southern hemisphere , by the melting of the ...
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... light grey , except the two outside feathers , which are white ; as are all the other parts of its plumage , except a few dusky spots on the back of the neck . Its long , weak , and dis- proportionate legs are of a blood red , and ...
... light grey , except the two outside feathers , which are white ; as are all the other parts of its plumage , except a few dusky spots on the back of the neck . Its long , weak , and dis- proportionate legs are of a blood red , and ...
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... light buoyant materials , woven and matted together , so as to float on , and to rise or fall with the ebbing or flowing of the water , like a boat ; and to prevent its being swept away by floods , it is moored or fastened to 26 BRITISH ...
... light buoyant materials , woven and matted together , so as to float on , and to rise or fall with the ebbing or flowing of the water , like a boat ; and to prevent its being swept away by floods , it is moored or fastened to 26 BRITISH ...
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... light blue : the scapu- lars and exterior webs of the quills are of the same co- lour , but without spots . The middle of the back , the rump , and coverts of the tail are of a most resplendent azure : the tail , which consists of ...
... light blue : the scapu- lars and exterior webs of the quills are of the same co- lour , but without spots . The middle of the back , the rump , and coverts of the tail are of a most resplendent azure : the tail , which consists of ...
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... light ash colour . From the pinion of each wing springs an elegant tuft of loose feathers , curled at the ends , which fall gracefully over the tail , in their flexibility , their position , and their texture , resembling the plumes of ...
... light ash colour . From the pinion of each wing springs an elegant tuft of loose feathers , curled at the ends , which fall gracefully over the tail , in their flexibility , their position , and their texture , resembling the plumes of ...
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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.