 | Herbert Keightley Job - 1905 - Страниц: 386
...arise over the " Bird Key" from which we were only a few hundred yards distance. . . . On landing, f felt for a moment as if the birds would raise me from the ground. — AUDUBON. OUTSIDE of Alaska, it would be hard to find a more desolate or isolated region in our... | |
 | 1915 - Страниц: 158
...regard to the number of sooties he says: As the chain grated the ear I saw a cloud-like mass arise from Bird Key, from which we were only a few hundred yards...myself and my assistant ashore. On landing I felt as if the birds would raise me from the ground, so thick were they all around and so quick the motion... | |
 | 1915 - Страниц: 484
...regard to the number of sooties he says: As the chain grated the ear I saw a cloud-like mass arise from Bird Key, from which we were only a few hundred yards...myself and my assistant ashore. On landing I felt as if the birds would raise me from the ground, so thick were they all around and so quick the motion... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1917 - Страниц: 1016
...channels leading- to the small harbour, where we anchored. As the chain grated the ear, I saw a cloud-lite mass arise over the " Bird Key " from which we were...landing, I felt for a moment as If the birds would ratoe me from the ground, so thick were they all round, and so quick the motion of their wings. Their... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1920 - Страниц: 1144
...has been written, beginning with Audubon's (1840) graphic account, from which I quote, as follows: On landing I felt for a moment as If the birds would raise me from the ground, so thick were they all around and so quick the motion of their wings. Their cries were Indeed deafening, yet not more than... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1921 - Страниц: 558
...has been written, beginning with Audubon's (1840) graphic account, from which I quote, as follows: On landing I felt for a moment as If the birds would raise me from the ground, so thick were they all around and so quick the motion of their wings. Their cries were indeed deafening, yet not more than... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1921 - Страниц: 836
...has been written, beginning with Audubon's (1840) graphic account, from which I quote, as follows: On landing I felt for a moment as if the birds would raise me from the ground, so thick were they all around and so quick the motion of their wings. Their cries were indeed deafening, yet not more than... | |
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... and so quick the motion of their wings. Their cries were indeed deafening, yet not more than half of them took to wing on our arrival, those which rose being chiefly male birds, as we afterwards ascertained. We ran across the naked beach, and as we... 