 | 1810 - Страниц: 312
...All the large feathers on the wings and tail are black, but all the rest of the body, and under the wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, &nd, as it were, gilded at the top, which in... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - Страниц: 234
...smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel-nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of...cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top ; and which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - Страниц: 470
...smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel-nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of...cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top ; and which... | |
 | 1830 - Страниц: 604
...hrilliancy of their colours. The feathers on their hody and under the wings are of a greenish hrown, with a fine red cast or gloss which no silk or velvet can imitate. The humming hird inhahits the warmer parts of America and the West Indies, and it is inconceivahle, as... | |
 | 1819 - Страниц: 186
...size of a hazel-nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but its body, and under its %vings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the Jbottom, and as it were gilded at the top; and Which... | |
 | J. Macloc - 1820 - Страниц: 348
...smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. The bill is black and slender, and the head is adorned... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1822 - Страниц: 252
...is about the size of a hazel nut. 6. The feathers on its wings and tail are black : but those on the body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown,...cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. 7- It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top ; and which... | |
 | 1813 - Страниц: 998
...seems to link together the insect and the feathered tribes. The feathers on its wings and tail are of a violet brown, but those on its body, and' under its wings, are of a greenish colour, with a fine red cast or gloss which no silk or velvet can imitate. Its bill is long, black,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - Страниц: 534
...smallest humming-bird is about the size of a hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body and under its wings, are of a greenish-brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - Страниц: 170
...hazel nut. The feathers on its wings and tail are black; but those on its body, and under its "flings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate, It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were gilded at the top; and which... | |
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The feathers on its wings and tail are black ; but those on its body, and under its wings, are of a greenish brown, with a fine red cast or gloss, which no silk or velvet can imitate. It has a small crest on its head, green at the bottom, and as it were... 
