Memorial Edition of Thomas Bewick's Works: A history of British birds. Water birdsB. Quaritch, 1885 |
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... greater number , are known invariably to leave the north , and to migrate south- ward on the approach of the winter months , and to return northward in the spring . It must be observed that the swamps and inland waters of temperate ...
... greater number , are known invariably to leave the north , and to migrate south- ward on the approach of the winter months , and to return northward in the spring . It must be observed that the swamps and inland waters of temperate ...
Стр. xi
... greater part of their time inland . In this class are the Ardea , Scolopax , and Tringa , with divided toes - the Fulica , Phalaropus , and Podiceps , with finned feet ; together with others of the web- footed kinds , chiefly of the ...
... greater part of their time inland . In this class are the Ardea , Scolopax , and Tringa , with divided toes - the Fulica , Phalaropus , and Podiceps , with finned feet ; together with others of the web- footed kinds , chiefly of the ...
Стр. xii
... greater or less numbers , according to the severity or mildness of the season , and are thus more equally distributed over the cultivated world ; where man , habituated to consider every thing in the creation as subservient to his use ...
... greater or less numbers , according to the severity or mildness of the season , and are thus more equally distributed over the cultivated world ; where man , habituated to consider every thing in the creation as subservient to his use ...
Стр. xiii
... greater part of them hatch and rear their young on the rocky promontories and inlets of the sea , and on the innumerable little isles with which the extensive coast of Norway is stud- * It is very probable that many of these varieties ...
... greater part of them hatch and rear their young on the rocky promontories and inlets of the sea , and on the innumerable little isles with which the extensive coast of Norway is stud- * It is very probable that many of these varieties ...
Стр. xvi
... greater depths ; while the less active birds seem content to devour only such of the fishes as have been killed or wounded , and cast out on the flanks , or left in the rear of the main body . In this great , this wonderful migration of ...
... greater depths ; while the less active birds seem content to devour only such of the fishes as have been killed or wounded , and cast out on the flanks , or left in the rear of the main body . In this great , this wonderful migration of ...
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appearance ash-coloured barred Bean Goose belly bill is black birds breadth breast breed British brow brownish buff colour cheeks chesnut Cormorant crown dark brown deep DOTTEREL Duck dusky eggs Eider Duck eyes feathers female fens figure was taken fish flocks fore GALLINULE genus glossy GODWIT GOOSANDER Goose greater coverts green Greenland grey Gull head and neck Heron hinder Iceland inches in length inches long irides Isles kind lakes Latham lead colour lesser coverts Lincolnshire Linn.-Canard LONG-TAILED DUCK male mandible marked measures middle moult mouth nape nearly nest northern nostrils numbers ornithologists ounces pale placed plumage primary quills reddish rump rusty scapu scapulars season secondary quills seldom shores shot sides Smew species Spitzbergen streaked stripe stuffed specimen tail consists tail coverts Temm Temminck tertials thighs throat tipped with white tribe upper mandible vent webs weighs white spot wild wing coverts WINTER PLUMAGE yellow yellowish young
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Стр. 148 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Стр. 99 - Sandpiper. — This bird measures about ten inches in length, to the end of the toes nearly twelve, and weighs about three ounces and a half. The bill is black, and an inch and a half long ; a pale streak extends from it over each eye, between which, and the corners of the mouth, there is a dusky patch. The crown of the head and the hinder part of the neck are of a dingy, brewnishash colour ; in some specimens narrowly streaked with white.
Стр. 189 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings.
Стр. 34 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Стр. xiv - Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Стр. xviii - His energy divine; he tells the heart, He meant, he made us to behold and love What he beholds and loves, the general orb Of life and being; to be great like him, Beneficent and active. Thus the men Whom Nature's works can charm, with God himself Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions, act upon his plan; And form to his, the relish of their souls.
Стр. 121 - ... and brakes, in the woody glens, or hollow dells which are covered with underwood : there they remain concealed during the day, and remove to different haunts and feed only in the night. From the beginning of March to the end of that month, or sometimes to the middle of April, they...
Стр. 71 - ... same colour, but the dark streaks upon it are larger ; about the vent it is quite white ; the lower part of the back is also white. The rump and tail feathers are barred with black and white ; the shafts of the quills are white, the outer webs totally black, but the inner ones marked with large white spots : the secondary quills are spotted in the same manner on both the inner and outer webs. The legs and feet are of the same shape and colour as those of the Curlew.
Стр. 366 - When they are come to the rivers, they take off their hoods, and having tied a leather thong round the lower part of their necks that they may not swallow down the fish they catch, they throw them into the river. They presently dive Under water, and there for a long time, with wonderful swiftness pursue the fish, and when they have caught them...
Стр. v - Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom*; and nothing is useless that, by furnishing mental employment, keeps us for a while in oblivion of those stronger appetites that lead to, evil.