 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 494 Seiten
...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...be at work for two hours together on the same tree. Buffon calls this " incessant toil and slavery ;" their attitude " a painful posture ;" and their life... | |
 | 1809 - 914 Seiten
...incessantly at the same spot, before he lias succeeded in dishxlging and destroying them. At these times you may walk up pretty close to the tree, and even stund immediately below it, within five or six feet . of the bird, without in the least embarrassing... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 Seiten
...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...be at work for two hours together on the same tree. Buffon calls this, " incessant toil and slavery," — their attitude, " a painful posture," — and... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...spot, till he has succeeded in dislodging them. At these times, you may walk pretty close to the tree without in the least embarrassing him: the strokes...several hundred yards off; and I have known him to work for two hours together on one tree. He has a single note or chink, which he frequently repeats... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 Seiten
...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...be at work for two hours together on the same tree. Buffon calls this " incessant toil and slavery," — their attitude " a painful posture," — and their... | |
 | 1833 - 438 Seiten
...hour incessantly at the same spot before he has succeeded in dislodging and destroying them. At thes6 times you may walk up pretty close to the tree, and...be at work for two hours together on the same tree. Bufibn calls this 'incessant toil and slavery ;' their attitude ' a painful posture ; ' and their life... | |
 | 1834 - 700 Seiten
...spot, till he has succeeded in dislodging them. At these times you may walk pretty close to the tree without in the least embarrassing him : the strokes...several hundred yards off; and I have known him to work for two hours together on one tree. He has a single note or chink, which he frequently repeats... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 Seiten
...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 live or six feet of the bird, without in the least embarrassing him ; the strokes of his bill are distinctly... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1856 - 906 Seiten
...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...are distinctly heard several hundred yards off; and 1 have known him to be at work for two hours on the same tree." Its mode of making its nest in the... | |
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... 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,... 
