American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Том 3Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot, 1832 |
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Стр. 250 - It comes o'er my memory, As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all." • The last quotation alludes to the supposed habit of this bird's flying over those houses which contain the sick, whose dissolution is at hand, and thereby announced. Thus Marlowe, in the Jew of Malta, as cited by Malone :—
Стр. 250 - The sad presaging raven tolls The sick man's passport in her hollow beak ; And, in the shadow of the silent night, Doth shake contagion from her sable wing.
Стр. 248 - white and ruddy, the chiefest among Ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, His locks are bushy, and black as a raven !
Стр. 254 - as those of the lion place him in the ranks of creation above the gaunt, ravenous, grisly, yet dastard wolf." Placed, by their strong and powerful frames, far beyond them in all rapacious powers, they feed nearly exclusively on living prey, despising all upon which they have not
Стр. 346 - Several turkey hens sometimes associate, perhaps for mutual safety, deposit their eggs in the same nest, and rear their broods together. Mr Audubon once found three females sitting on forty-two eggs. In such cases, the nest is constantly guarded by one of the parties, so that no crow, raven, nor even polecat, dares approach it.
Стр. 45 - The whooping crane is four feet six inches in length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and, when
Стр. 43 - They afford one of the most beautiful instances of animal motion we can anywhere meet with. They fly at a great height, and wheeling in circles, appear to rest without effort on the surface of an aerial current, by whose eddies they are borne about in an endless series of revolutions
Стр. 124 - chosen a hollow space at the root of the same tree, to lay and hatch her young in. The summer duck seldom flies in flocks of more than three or four individuals together, and most commonly in pairs, or singly. The common note of the drake
Стр. 507 - of the south-east fork of the Columbia to that of Clark's River. It appears also to extend to California, for there can be but little doubt that it is the bird erroneously called bustard by the travellers who have visited that country. Lewis and Clark state, that in its habits it resembles the grouse, (meaning probably T.
Стр. 64 - contracted or drawn in upon his shoulders, and his beak resting like a long scythe upon his breast ; in this pensive posture, and solitary situation, they look extremely grave, sorrowful, and melancholy, as if in the deepest thought. They are never seen on the