| 1819 - 424 páginas
...strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ¡ the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girded with ah axe. The maiks of this desolation remain for many year« on the spot; and numerous places... | |
| 1821 - 444 páginas
...strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if smitten with an axe. The marks of this desolation remain for many years on the spot; and numerous places... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 páginas
...the tender grass and underwood destroyed ; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another;...after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitant from considerable distances, visit them in the... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 páginas
...the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1835 - 474 páginas
...off by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, WILD PIGEON. for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. " When the roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the... | |
| Thomas Campbell Eyton - 1836 - 200 páginas
...the tender grass and underwood destroyed, the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another,...after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in... | |
| John Wesley - 1836 - 414 páginas
...the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broke down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another:...after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in... | |
| Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 páginas
...the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another,...could be pointed out, where for several years after scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance. " When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants... | |
| 1846 - 872 páginas
...the birds collecting one above another — a single tree often containing above one hundred nests — and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in... | |
| Jacob Post Giraud - 1844 - 430 páginas
...underwood destroyed ; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of these birds clustering one above another — and the trees...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable made its appearance." The flight of the Wild Pigeon is estimated at the... | |
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