Magazine of Natural History, Հատոր 6John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1833 |
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... wings . The amazing courage and strength displayed by this bird , in contending against the numerous storms with which we were assailed , during many hours , convinced me of its power to perform the longest migrations , with comparative ...
... wings . The amazing courage and strength displayed by this bird , in contending against the numerous storms with which we were assailed , during many hours , convinced me of its power to perform the longest migrations , with comparative ...
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... wing , the latter flew out in a straight undeviating line , and silently . Nor were they less distinguished by their voices ; for the cries of seafowl are never plaintive , but most harsh , and most consonant with the pictorial ...
... wing , the latter flew out in a straight undeviating line , and silently . Nor were they less distinguished by their voices ; for the cries of seafowl are never plaintive , but most harsh , and most consonant with the pictorial ...
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... wing towards the ocean ; the great grey sea- mews wheeled in straggling companies , far far above the summit , round and round , like eagles , and uttered continually their sonorous and piercing call ; while in the distance the black ...
... wing towards the ocean ; the great grey sea- mews wheeled in straggling companies , far far above the summit , round and round , like eagles , and uttered continually their sonorous and piercing call ; while in the distance the black ...
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... wings and body of an owl that happened by accident to hang dead and dry from the rafter of a barn . " . In Letter 18 . to Daines Barrington . ― 5 within the mouth of Tom Otter , who had 32 Singular Nidification in Birds .
... wings and body of an owl that happened by accident to hang dead and dry from the rafter of a barn . " . In Letter 18 . to Daines Barrington . ― 5 within the mouth of Tom Otter , who had 32 Singular Nidification in Birds .
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... wings and feathers , and by hissing . As a proof , if further proof were needed , how much " the natural timidity of birds is lessened during incuba- tion , " I may mention , that the tomtit had ( as I was informed ) suffered itself to ...
... wings and feathers , and by hissing . As a proof , if further proof were needed , how much " the natural timidity of birds is lessened during incuba- tion , " I may mention , that the tomtit had ( as I was informed ) suffered itself to ...
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Էջ 147 - At length did cross an Albatross: Thorough the fog it came : As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name. It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Էջ 396 - SILENT nymph, with curious eye ! Who, the purple evening, lie On the mountain's lonely van, Beyond the noise of busy man ; Painting fair the form of things, While the yellow linnet sings ; Or the tuneful nightingale Charms the forest with her tale ; Come, with all thy various hues, Come, and aid thy sister Muse...
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Էջ 235 - The patriot's virtue and the poet's song, Still, as the tide of ages rolls away, Shall charm the world, unconscious of decay. Yes ! there are hearts, prophetic HOPE may trust, That slumber yet in uncreated dust, Ordain'd to fire th...
Էջ 200 - There shall he love, when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears, To watch the brightening roses of the sky, And muse on Nature with a poet's eye ! — And when the sun's last splendour lights the deep, The woods, and waves, and murmuring winds asleep; When fairy harps th...
Էջ 200 - Hesperian planet hail, And the lone cuckoo sighs along the vale, His path shall be where streamy mountains swell Their shadowy grandeur o'er the narrow dell, Where mouldering piles and forests intervene, Mingling with darker tints the living green ; No circling hills his ravish'd eye to bound, Heaven, Earth, and Ocean, blazing all around.
Էջ 65 - General System of Gardening and Botany; containing a complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known; with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, Mode of Culture, and their Uses in Medicine and Domestic Economy.
Էջ 142 - ... times the whole of their subsistence. Here, then, if my data be correct, there is the enormous quantity of 468,000 Ibs., or 209 tons, of worms, insects, and their larvae, destroyed by the rooks of a single rookery in one year.
Էջ 160 - Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.