Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are added Elements of botany). |
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... inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and from the tip of each wing , when extended , five feet and several inches . The bill appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the ...
... inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and from the tip of each wing , when extended , five feet and several inches . The bill appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the ...
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... inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and from the tip of each wing , when extended , five feet and several inches . The bill appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the ...
... inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and from the tip of each wing , when extended , five feet and several inches . The bill appears compressed sideways , being more than three inches long , and hooked towards the ...
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anal fins animal appears ash colour back and wings beak beautiful belly white bill blue body breast and belly breed brown called chiefly cock common covered crest deep distinguished dorsal fin duck dusky Eagle eggs England Europe eyes feathers feed feet female fins fish flesh flocks foreign birds four frequently GALLINULE genus glossed godwit gray green Greenland GULL half head and neck holes inches in length inches long inhabitants insects JABIRU Jack Snipe kind known lapwing lateral line lays legs male manner mouth native nest orange colour Ostrich ounces pale pectoral fins Pigeons Plover plumage pounds pounds weight PRATINCOLE prey quadrupeds reddish resembles rivers round season seen seldom shores side skin slender sometimes species spots swallow swan tail three inches throat titmouse toes trees tribe upper weighs Whale whole wild winter yellow young
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Стр. 135 - Suddenly there burst forth a general cry of "Here they come!" The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel. As the birds arrived and passed over me, I felt a current of air that surprised me. Thousands were soon knocked down by the pole-men.
Стр. 322 - 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. 234 - The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches.
Стр. 415 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling...
Стр. 131 - I proceeded. The air was literally filled with Pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose.
Стр. 27 - ... in a direct line, he takes his course in circles ; while the hunters still make a small course within, relieve each other, meet him at unexpected turns, and keep him thus still employed, still followed, for two or three days together. At last, spent with fatigue and famine, and finding all power of escape impossible, he endeavours to hide himself from those enemies he cannot avoid, and covers his head in the sand, or the first thicket he meets. Sometimes, however, he attempts to face his pursuers...
Стр. 291 - I have heard one of them, with a loud, long note, sound a kind of charge, to which the rest punctually attended, and they pursued their journey with renewed alacrity. Their flight is very regularly arranged ; they either go in a line abreast, or in two lines, joining in an angle in the middle.
Стр. 226 - INDEED, the music of every bird in captivity produces no very pleasing sensations ; it is but the mirth of a little animal insensible of its unfortunate situation ; it is the landscape, the grove, the golden break of day, the contest upon the hawthorn, the fluttering from branch to branch, the soaring in the ah-, and the answering of its young, that gives the bird's song its true relish.
Стр. 134 - Two farmers from the vicinity of Russelsville, distant more than a hundred miles, had driven upwards of three hundred hogs to be fattened on the pigeons which were to be slaughtered. Here and there the people employed in plucking and salting what had already been procured, were seen sitting in the midst of large piles of these birds.
Стр. 133 - As soon as the Pigeons discover a sufficiency of food to entice them to alight, they fly round in circles, reviewing the country below. During their evolutions, on such occasions, the dense mass which they form exhibits a beautiful appearance, as it changes its direction, now displaying a glistening sheet of azure, when the backs of the birds come simultaneously into view, and anon, suddenly presenting a mass of rich deep purple. They...