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, Volume 1Derby & Jackson, 1859 - Animal behavior |
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... beautiful association ; they come and go with the change of the sea- sons , and as their actions are directed by an uncontrollable instinct of provident nature , they may be considered as concomitant with the beauty of the surrounding ...
... beautiful association ; they come and go with the change of the sea- sons , and as their actions are directed by an uncontrollable instinct of provident nature , they may be considered as concomitant with the beauty of the surrounding ...
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... beautiful and the pure in nature : to him the soaring lark will seem indeed to pour forth at heaven's gate , a morning hymn of praise , and the nightingale to chant amid the leafy woodlands a vesper song of thankfulness : the full ...
... beautiful and the pure in nature : to him the soaring lark will seem indeed to pour forth at heaven's gate , a morning hymn of praise , and the nightingale to chant amid the leafy woodlands a vesper song of thankfulness : the full ...
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... beautiful faces eagerly upturned , beaming piquantly , perhaps with a little of the ferocity of the age ; gay squires on their daintily caparisoned steeds , cheering the falcon to exert his utmost swiftness and prowess ; noble ...
... beautiful faces eagerly upturned , beaming piquantly , perhaps with a little of the ferocity of the age ; gay squires on their daintily caparisoned steeds , cheering the falcon to exert his utmost swiftness and prowess ; noble ...
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... beautiful instance of adaptation to its hab- its . The close thigh - feathers resist the action of the water , in which it plunges for its prey , while the talon of the outer toe is much larger than the inner one , and capable of being ...
... beautiful instance of adaptation to its hab- its . The close thigh - feathers resist the action of the water , in which it plunges for its prey , while the talon of the outer toe is much larger than the inner one , and capable of being ...
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... beautiful of the family , found in New Mexico , California , and Mexico ; the RoUGH - WINGED SWAL- Low , H. serripennis , found from Pennsylvania to Louisiana ; and the H. fulva , common in Jamaica . Genus PROGNE : Progne . This ...
... beautiful of the family , found in New Mexico , California , and Mexico ; the RoUGH - WINGED SWAL- Low , H. serripennis , found from Pennsylvania to Louisiana ; and the H. fulva , common in Jamaica . Genus PROGNE : Progne . This ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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,
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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...