Beautiful birds: their natural history, ed. by R. Tyas, Volumen2 |
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... America the Caprimulgus Virginianus is a common species , and it ranges in summer even to the remotest Arctic islands . The gape of this bird is entirely destitute of bristles . The wings are remarkably long and * The use of this ...
... America the Caprimulgus Virginianus is a common species , and it ranges in summer even to the remotest Arctic islands . The gape of this bird is entirely destitute of bristles . The wings are remarkably long and * The use of this ...
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... America . The name Goatsucker was given to this bird , or genus of birds , in early times on account of its sup- posed familiarity with cattle , and of its propensity to suck goats . The French call it Engoulivent , a name signifying ...
... America . The name Goatsucker was given to this bird , or genus of birds , in early times on account of its sup- posed familiarity with cattle , and of its propensity to suck goats . The French call it Engoulivent , a name signifying ...
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... flight of this bird is low , skimming a few feet above the ground , frequently settling on old logs or * Wanderings in South America . fences , and thence sweeping around in pursuit of insects 6 BEAUTIFUL BIRDS . Carolina Goatsucker 6.
... flight of this bird is low , skimming a few feet above the ground , frequently settling on old logs or * Wanderings in South America . fences , and thence sweeping around in pursuit of insects 6 BEAUTIFUL BIRDS . Carolina Goatsucker 6.
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... America and of India , and its adjacent islands , Ceylon , Java , Sumatra , etc .; one species only having as yet been discovered in Africa . They are remarkable for the beauty and brilliancy of their plumage . The metallic golden green ...
... America and of India , and its adjacent islands , Ceylon , Java , Sumatra , etc .; one species only having as yet been discovered in Africa . They are remarkable for the beauty and brilliancy of their plumage . The metallic golden green ...
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... America , know that they never perch upon any other than small and slender branches , and this we might infer from the shape of the foot . The two outer anterior toes are very long , so that they would completely clasp two - thirds of ...
... America , know that they never perch upon any other than small and slender branches , and this we might infer from the shape of the foot . The two outer anterior toes are very long , so that they would completely clasp two - thirds of ...
Términos y frases comunes
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
Pasajes populares
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...