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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... wood is silent in an in- stant , and every bird either listens for the enemy's coming , or hastens to the aid of the comrade who is attacked . This peculiarity is so marked , that in Europe the fowlers have not failed to turn it to ...
... wood is silent in an in- stant , and every bird either listens for the enemy's coming , or hastens to the aid of the comrade who is attacked . This peculiarity is so marked , that in Europe the fowlers have not failed to turn it to ...
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... woods , feeding on birds , reptiles , and small quadrupeds . In its habits it is rather indolent , its flight being ... wood . The eggs are two , sometimes THE KITE . three , of a dirty white ,. THE FORK - TAILED KITE . THE COMMON BUZZARD ...
... woods , feeding on birds , reptiles , and small quadrupeds . In its habits it is rather indolent , its flight being ... wood . The eggs are two , sometimes THE KITE . three , of a dirty white ,. THE FORK - TAILED KITE . THE COMMON BUZZARD ...
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... woods of Europe , Asia , and Amer- ica , but more particularly in the northern parts . Nuttall thus describes it : " Near their rocky nests they are seen usually in pairs , at times majestically soaring to a vast height , and gazing on ...
... woods of Europe , Asia , and Amer- ica , but more particularly in the northern parts . Nuttall thus describes it : " Near their rocky nests they are seen usually in pairs , at times majestically soaring to a vast height , and gazing on ...
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... reaches the water , and bears his ill - gotten booty silently away to the woods . " These predatory attacks and defensive maneuvers of the eagle. HEAD AND FOOT OF BALD EAGLE . THE YOUNG BALD EAGLE . CLASS II . AVES : ORDER 1. RAPTORES . 43.
... reaches the water , and bears his ill - gotten booty silently away to the woods . " These predatory attacks and defensive maneuvers of the eagle. HEAD AND FOOT OF BALD EAGLE . THE YOUNG BALD EAGLE . CLASS II . AVES : ORDER 1. RAPTORES . 43.
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... wood - louse drooped and rolled into a ball , Touched by some impulse occult or mechanic ; And nameless beetles ran along the wall In universal panic . " The subtle spider , that from overhead ( 6 Hung like a spy on human guilt and ...
... wood - louse drooped and rolled into a ball , Touched by some impulse occult or mechanic ; And nameless beetles ran along the wall In universal panic . " The subtle spider , that from overhead ( 6 Hung like a spy on human guilt and ...
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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...