 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - Страниц: 826
..."Compendium;" and, when I rose, a large covey of ptarmigans sprung from among the stones, about a hunilrru aud fifty yards beneath me. These beautiful birds, while...motionless, as they invariably do should a person he in sight. Indeed, unless you are directed to a particular spot by their strange low croaking cry,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1838 - Страниц: 830
...a hnn. dreil and fifty yards beneath me. These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk amoiig the weather-beaten and lichen-crusted fragments of...distinguish them when they remain motionless, as they in\ariably do should a person be in sight. Indeed, unless you are directed to a particular spot by... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 528
...author last quoted give* the follomiy detcnyo* of the habits of this species from personal observation: 'These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk...particular spot by their strange low croaking cry, which lias been compared to the harsh scream of the misselthrush, but which seems to me much more like the... | |
 | 1842 - Страниц: 540
...m terms it. the Brown Ptarmigan. TET TET of the habits of this species from personal observation : •These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk...which has been compared to the harsh scream of the misselIhnish, but which seems to me much more like the cry of a fro?, you may pass through a flock... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - Страниц: 616
...shooting distance. While feeding, the ptarmigans run and walk among tbe lichen-crusted and crumbling fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...particular spot by their strange low croaking cry, which is not very unlike that of a frog, you may pass through a flock without observing a tingle individual.... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - Страниц: 298
..." These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk amongst the weather-beaten and lichen-crested fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...are directed to a particular spot by their strange low-croaking intonations, you may pass through a flock of ptarmigans without observing a single individual,... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1884 - Страниц: 728
...that "these beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk among the weather-beaten and lichen-crested fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...particular spot by their strange low croaking cry, you may pass through u flock of Ptarmigans without observing a single individual, although some of... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 640
...: " These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk among the weather-beaten and lichen-crested fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...particular spot by their strange low croaking cry, you may pass through a flock of ptarmigans without observing a single individual, although some of... | |
 | William Henry Hudson, Frank Evers Beddard - 1895 - Страниц: 468
...: ' These beautiful birds, while feeding, run and walk among the weather-beaten und lichen-crested fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...particular spot by their strange low, croaking cry, you may pass through a flock of ptarmigans without observing a single individual, although some of... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 840
...These beau76 77 til'ul birds, while feeding, run and walk amongst the weather-beaten and lichen-crested fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult...to a particular spot by their strange low croaking intonations, you may pass through a flock of ptarmigans without observing a single individual, although... | |
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These beautiful birds while feeding, run and walk among the weather-beaten and lichen-crusted fragments of rock, from which it is very difficult to distinguish them when they remain motionless, as they invariably do should a person be in sight. Indeed,... 