Beautiful birds: their natural history, ed. by R. Tyas, Band 2 |
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... prey among twigs and branches , the pendent festoons of climbing plants , and the tall stems and large leaves of aquatic ones , so that while they pursue in a swift and smooth forward flight , it is also necessary that they should be ...
... prey among twigs and branches , the pendent festoons of climbing plants , and the tall stems and large leaves of aquatic ones , so that while they pursue in a swift and smooth forward flight , it is also necessary that they should be ...
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John Cotton (F.Z.S.) Robert Tyas. selves carnivorous , or hawk for their prey in the bushes or on the leaves , and others are to be sought for in the corollas of plants , into which they have plunged for the sake of the sweet juices ...
John Cotton (F.Z.S.) Robert Tyas. selves carnivorous , or hawk for their prey in the bushes or on the leaves , and others are to be sought for in the corollas of plants , into which they have plunged for the sake of the sweet juices ...
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... prey on the wing . . In these islands , the species under consideration is as plentiful and as familiar in its habits as Swal- lows are with us , only it builds , or rather burrows , in banks remote from human habitations . But , in ...
... prey on the wing . . In these islands , the species under consideration is as plentiful and as familiar in its habits as Swal- lows are with us , only it builds , or rather burrows , in banks remote from human habitations . But , in ...
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... prey is much more minute than that of even the smallest of the diurnal Accipitres , they are endowed with correspond- ing capacities for finding it . . It is natural to suppose that their sight is very acute . Their feet are extremely ...
... prey is much more minute than that of even the smallest of the diurnal Accipitres , they are endowed with correspond- ing capacities for finding it . . It is natural to suppose that their sight is very acute . Their feet are extremely ...
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... prey is caught upon the wing in a manner similar to that of the Swallows , but consists of larger and more powerful insects , the greatest facility in securing the prey is given by a striking modification of the bill , or gape , and the ...
... prey is caught upon the wing in a manner similar to that of the Swallows , but consists of larger and more powerful insects , the greatest facility in securing the prey is given by a striking modification of the bill , or gape , and the ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adapted Africa appears bark base beautiful Bee-eater bill Birds of Paradise body branches brilliant British Cyclopædia brown Bunting Caprimulgida chiefly claws climbing colour common Common Starling considerable Corvida Creeper Cuckoo dart eggs enabled extremity favourite feathers feed feet female Finches flight flocks flowers foot forests fruits genera genus Goatsucker grass green ground habits Hawfinch head hinder toe hole Hoopoe Hornbills Humming Bird inches inhabit insects islands Kingfisher larvæ legs length male mandible manner middle toe native nearly neck nest Nightjar Nuthatch observed Paradise Birds Parrots peculiar perch plumage posterior powerful prey Promeropida Psittacidae quills rapid remarkably resemblance rich scansorial season seeds seen short side slender Snow Bunting sometimes species spot Starling structure Sturnida sub-family Swainson Swallows Swift tail tarsus throat tongue trees tribe Trogons twig upper mandible vegetable whole wings wood Woodpecker Wryneck yellow young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 155 - ETHEREAL minstrel ! pilgrim of the sky ! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, Those quivering wings composed, that music still...
Seite 155 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of heaven and home!
Seite 154 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG To the Cuckoo O BLITHE new-comer!
Seite 4 - Goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or four yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Whoare-you, who-who-who-are-you." Another bids you, " Work-away, work-work-work-away.
Seite 154 - Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place— Oh to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green...
Seite 9 - In these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet-like note and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant.
Seite 102 - No sooner has the returning sun again introduced the vernal season, and caused millions of plants to expand their leaves and blossoms to his genial beams, than the little humming-bird is seen advancing on fairy wings, carefully visiting every opening flower-cup, and, like a curious florist, removing from each the injurious insects that otherwise would ere long cause their beauteous petals to droop and decay.
Seite 141 - ... solicitous is the Baltimore to procure proper materials for his nest, that, in the season of building, the women in the country are under the necessity of narrowly watching their thread that may chance to be out bleaching, and the farmer to secure his young grafts ; as the Baltimore finding the former, and the strings which tie the latter, so well adapted for his purpose, frequently carries off both ; or, should the one be...
Seite 103 - The prairies, the fields, the orchards and gardens, nay, 40 the deepest shades of the forests, are all visited in their turn, and everywhere the little bird meets with pleasure and with food. Its gorgeous throat in beauty and brilliancy baffles all competition. Now it glows with a fiery hue, and again it is changed to the deepest velvety black. 45 The upper parts of its delicate body are of resplendent changing green ; and it throws itself through the air with a swiftness and vivacity hardly conceivable.
Seite 13 - ... sometimes, for half an hour, incessantly at the same spot, before he has succeeded in dislodging and destroying them. At these times you may walk up pretty close to the tree, and even stand immediately below it, within five or six feet of the bird, without in the least embarrassing him; the strokes of his bill are distinctly heard several hundred yards off; and I have known him to be at work for two hours together on the same tree. Buffon calls this, " incessant toil and slavery...