 | Prideaux John Selby - 1833 - Страниц: 596
...•snr-at^fw:* to which the parent birds have recourse, in order to deceive, and draw off the intruder. Their parental instinct, indeed, is not always confined...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two Partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a CarrionCrow ; so successful... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - Страниц: 290
...authors, we shall notice one of the latest which Mr Selby has recorded in the last edition of his History of British Ornithology* : — " Their parental instinct,...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful... | |
 | William Jardine - 1834 - Страниц: 360
...of his History of British Ornithology*: — *'Their parental instinct, indeed, is not always conGned to mere devices for engaging attention ; but where...objects on the ground, •which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - Страниц: 604
...enhance their real value, states, as a fact, for which he himself can vouch, the following narrative : " A person engaged in a field, not far from my residence,...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two Partridges, a male and a female, engaged in a battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful... | |
 | 1836 - Страниц: 436
...Their parental instinct, indeed, is not a'lways confined to mere devices for engaging attention ; hut where there exists a probability of success, they...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a carrion-crow ; so successful... | |
 | 1839 - Страниц: 786
...Fringilla Calebs, or Bachelor Finch. Mr. SBLBY says, in his valuable work on British birds : — " A person engaged in a field, not far from my residence,...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two Partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a Carrion Crow ; so successful... | |
 | William Jardine - 1844 - Страниц: 334
...writers, and to which the following may be added, for the truth of which I can vouch. A person engagei in a field, not far from my residence, had his attention...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a carnon-crow ; so successful... | |
 | Sarah Lee - 1844 - Страниц: 520
...young amounts to a proverb; and Mr. Selby relates the following anecdote in illustration of it: — "A person engaged in a field not far from my residence, had his attention aroused by some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1846 - Страниц: 360
...usually timid bird will make when pushed to extremity, and actuated by the parental instinct : — " A person engaged in a field not far from my residence,...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a carrion crow: so successful... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - Страниц: 564
...sometimes evinced by these birds with this object, Mr. Selby relates the following anecdote : — " A person engaged in a field not far from my residence,...some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two Partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a Carrion Crow ; so successful... | |
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A person engaged in a field, not far from my residence, had his attention arrested by some objects on the ground, which, upon approaching, he found to be two partridges, a male and female, engaged in battle with a... 
