Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom: Being a Systematic and Popular Description of the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals from the Highest to the Lowest Forms, with Their Relations to Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and the Arts, Volumen1Derby & Jackson, 1859 |
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... give rise to the arteries of the body . The jaws or mandibles are sheathed in a horny case , usually of a conical form , on the sides of which are the nostrils . In most birds the sides of this sheath or bill are smooth and sharp , but ...
... give rise to the arteries of the body . The jaws or mandibles are sheathed in a horny case , usually of a conical form , on the sides of which are the nostrils . In most birds the sides of this sheath or bill are smooth and sharp , but ...
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... give delight ; ' and about ten weeks have been mentioned as the period during which most of our wild birds are in song . That there are exceptions to this rule there is no doubt . We have heard a wild thrush , one of the sweetest ...
... give delight ; ' and about ten weeks have been mentioned as the period during which most of our wild birds are in song . That there are exceptions to this rule there is no doubt . We have heard a wild thrush , one of the sweetest ...
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... give them the greatest possible effect . The nails , or claws , to be available , must be sharp ; and , in order ... gives the bird of prey the power of elevating its claws at pleas- ure . The claws of falcons when sitting on stones or ...
... give them the greatest possible effect . The nails , or claws , to be available , must be sharp ; and , in order ... gives the bird of prey the power of elevating its claws at pleas- ure . The claws of falcons when sitting on stones or ...
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... gives us a lively description of the manner in which this fine and powerful bird darts down upon the ducks along the shores of New Jersey and Pennsylvania , carrying terror and dismay among the myriad flocks that gather at particular ...
... gives us a lively description of the manner in which this fine and powerful bird darts down upon the ducks along the shores of New Jersey and Pennsylvania , carrying terror and dismay among the myriad flocks that gather at particular ...
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... gives the following : the BENGAL FALCON , I. cœrulescens , which we have noticed at page 24 ; the SILKY FALCON , 1 . sericeus , and the WHITE - NAPED FALCON , I. eutolmus . Genus NAUCLERUS : Nauclerus . - This includes the SWALLOW ...
... gives the following : the BENGAL FALCON , I. cœrulescens , which we have noticed at page 24 ; the SILKY FALCON , 1 . sericeus , and the WHITE - NAPED FALCON , I. eutolmus . Genus NAUCLERUS : Nauclerus . - This includes the SWALLOW ...
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abundant Africa American species animals appearance Asia attached bald eagle beautiful belongs beneath bill birds body Brazil breast breeding brown called coasts color common crest crows crustacea CURLEW devour EAGLE eggs England Europe European exceedingly FALCON falconry feathers feeds feet long female fish five inches long flesh flocks FLY-CATCHER four frequently furnished Genus grass gray green ground habits half inches long HAWK head includes Indian inhabits insects islands known larva larvæ length light live male mandible Mexico migratory Mountains native nearly neck nest North America northern notes pair perch pigeons plumage preceding prey quadrupeds resembles rivers SANDPIPER season seeds seen shell SHRIKE six inches long sometimes song South Southern spotted SPOTTED WOODPECKER summer surface tail THRUSH TITMOUSE toes trees tropical upper usually uttering various VULTURE WARBLER wings winter WOODPECKER woods worms yellow young
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Página 330 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 197 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Página 197 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Página 623 - From coral rocks the sea-plants lift Their boughs, where the tides and billows flow : The water is calm and still below, For the winds and waves are absent there, And the sands are bright as the stars that glow In the motionless fields of upper air.
Página 308 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Página 175 - 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 308 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 175 - 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 88 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Página 190 - Modest and shy as a nun is she ; One weak chirp is her only note. Braggart and prince of braggarts is he, Pouring boasts from his little throat : Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link...