 | Richard King - 1836 - Страниц: 676
...from the raging elements under the lee of our tent. Like the pomarine jager, or gull-hunter, this bird subsists on putrid fish and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, as well as upon the matters which the gulls disgorge when pursued by it. Returning from the north in... | |
 | Richard King - 1836 - Страниц: 370
...from the raging elements under the lee of our tent. Like the pomarine jager, or gull-hunter, this bird subsists on putrid fish and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, as well as upon the matters which the gulls disgorge when pursued by it. Returning from the north in... | |
 | Jacob Post Giraud - 1844 - Страниц: 430
...opportunity of observing its habits, I cannot do better than give the remarks as stated by Dr. Richardson. " The Pomarine Jager, or Gull-hunter, is not uncommon...and makes its first appearance at Hudson's Bay in Maine, coming in from seaward. The Indians abhor it, considering it to be a companion of the Esquimaux,... | |
 | William Macgillivray - 1852 - Страниц: 732
...Richardson states that, in the arctic seas and northern inlets of Hudson's Bay, where it is not uncommon, it subsists on putrid fish and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, as well as on the matter which the Gulls disgorge when pursued by it. YOUNG. — The young, in their... | |
 | Edward Augustus Samuels - 1883 - Страниц: 666
...species is not uncommon on our north-east coast in the autumn and winter mouths. " It subsists on putrid and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, and also on fish and other matters which the Gulls disgorge when pursued by it. It also devours the eggs of sea-birds."... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1884 - Страниц: 728
...that it "is not uncommon in the northern outlets of Hudson's Bay, where it subsists on putrid flesh and other animal substances thrown up by the sea,...appearance at Hudson's Bay in May, coming in from seaward. The Indians abhor it, considering it to be a companion of the Esquimaux, and to partake of their evil... | |
 | Thomas Nuttall - 1896 - Страниц: 498
...outlets of Hudson Bay. Mr. Audubon obtained specimens on the coast of Labrador. It subsists on putrid and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, and also on fish and other matters which the Gulls disgorge when pursued by it ; it also devours the eggs of sea-birds.... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1921 - Страниц: 558
...its name parasitic, it occasionally does some foraging for itself; thus King (1836) says that it also "subsists on putrid fish and other animal substances thrown up by the sea." Turner (1886), at St. Michael, Alaska, says it eats "fishes that had been cast on the beach, shell... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1921 - Страниц: 836
...its name parasitic, it occasionally does some foraging for itself; thus King (1836) says that it also "subsists on putrid fish and other animal substances thrown up by the sea." Turner (1886), at St. Michael, Alaska, says it eats "fishes that had been cast on the beach, shell... | |
| |
Bay, where it subsists on putrid fish, and other animal substances thrown up by the sea, and also on the matters which the Gulls disgorge when pursued by it. 