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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... sometimes rounded and sometimes forked at the end . The tarsi are rarely furnished with scutella as in the Passerine birds , but , like the toes , they are generally covered with a reticulated skin , although in some cases a few ...
... sometimes rounded and sometimes forked at the end . The tarsi are rarely furnished with scutella as in the Passerine birds , but , like the toes , they are generally covered with a reticulated skin , although in some cases a few ...
Page 28
... sometimes allowed refuge by the ospreys , and construct their nests in the very interstices of their eyry . It would appear sometimes that , as with swal- lows , a general assistance is given in the constructing of a new nest , for ...
... sometimes allowed refuge by the ospreys , and construct their nests in the very interstices of their eyry . It would appear sometimes that , as with swal- lows , a general assistance is given in the constructing of a new nest , for ...
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... sometimes a kid or a lamb from the sporting flock , or the timid rabbit or hare crouched in the furrow , or sheltered in some bush . The largest birds . are also frequently their victims , and in extreme want they will not refuse to ...
... sometimes a kid or a lamb from the sporting flock , or the timid rabbit or hare crouched in the furrow , or sheltered in some bush . The largest birds . are also frequently their victims , and in extreme want they will not refuse to ...
Page 44
... sometimes is , by the combined courage and perseverance of the fish - hawks , from their neighborhood , and forced to hunt for himself , he retires more inland , in search of young pigs , of which he destroys great numbers . In the ...
... sometimes is , by the combined courage and perseverance of the fish - hawks , from their neighborhood , and forced to hunt for himself , he retires more inland , in search of young pigs , of which he destroys great numbers . In the ...
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... Sometimes the human eye can just discern him , like a minute speck , moving in slow curvatures along the face of the heavens , as if reconnoitering the earth at that immense distance . Sometimes he glides along in a direct horizontal ...
... Sometimes the human eye can just discern him , like a minute speck , moving in slow curvatures along the face of the heavens , as if reconnoitering the earth at that immense distance . Sometimes he glides along in a direct horizontal ...
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Popular passages
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...