 At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage: on viewing it, all speculation on the part of the ornithologist is utterly confounded; for there is not the smallest clue afforded him, by which he may be enabled...  The New sporting magazine - Seite 91Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1836 - 688 Seiten
...who has ordained the ostrich to remain on the earth, and allowed the bat to soar through the etherial vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very...clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a very keen and penetrating eye to distinguish them." [VIII. 544.] In one point of view, however, at... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1838 - 438 Seiten
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage:...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 Seiten
...sportsman's memorandum-book in January which will materially assist him in March, and vice versft. This winter the wildfowl, of all kinds, have been...said as to the usual load or the size of shot used in duck-shooting. A hand-gun for ducks should never be less than twelve-gauge, and even if it be wider... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1839 - 430 Seiten
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1844 - 468 Seiten
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
 | 1854 - 392 Seiten
...year. Her uncle then read to Annie the following curious account of this fact out of a book :* — " To Him alone, who has ordered the ostrich to remain...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May the breast and back... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1885 - 708 Seiten
...through the ethereal vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very short period of the year^should be so completely clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
 | 1886 - 526 Seiten
...to trace out the cause of the strange phenomenon. The drake, for a very short period of the year, is so completely clothed in the raiment of the female that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May the breast and back... | |
 | 524 Seiten
...the sportsman's memorandum-book in January which will materially assist him in March, and vice versa. This winter the wildfowl, of all kinds, have been...said as to the usual load or the size of shot used in duck-shooting. A hand-gun for ducks should never be less than twelve-gauge, and even if it be wider... | |
 | 168 Seiten
...who has ordained the ostrich to remain on the earth, and allowed the bat to soar through the etherial vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very...clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a very keen and penetrating eye to distinguish them." [VIII. 544.] In one point of view, however, at... | |
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