 ... downwards is very broad, with a considerable depression in the middle. This depression seems formed by nature for the design of giving a more secure lodgment to the egg of the hedge-sparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing...  Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Page 264by William Bingley - 1829Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1789 - 688 pages
...the delign of giving a more fecure lodgement to the egg of the hedgefparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back at. fumes... | |
 | 716 pages
...hcdgefparrow, or its. young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing cither of them from the ncft. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back alfumcs the fhape of neflling birds in general. ( To be coHtaitteJ. ) BIOGRAPHICAL... | |
 | English poetry - 1789 - 602 pages
...the defign of giving a more fecure lodgement to the egg of the hedgefparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is about twelve dav* old, old, this cavity is quite filled up, and bling, in fome meafure,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1790 - 646 pages
...the defign of giving* more fecure lodgment to the egg of the hedge-fparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back aifumes the... | |
 | History - 1790 - 566 pages
...for thedefign of giving a more fecure lodgment to the egg of the hedge fparrow, orits youngpne, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up. and then the back aflumes the... | |
 | History - 1790 - 562 pages
...the dcfign of giving x more fecure lodgment to the egg of the hedge fparrow, or its young one-, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is above twelve day» old, this cavity is quite filled up. and then the back affumes... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...for the purpose of giving a more secure lodgment to the egg of the Hedge-sparrow or its young one, while the young Cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the nest. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, the back assumes the shape of that of nestling... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...the design of giving a more secure lodgment to the egg of the hedge-sparrow or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of...about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back assumes the shape of nestling birds in general. It sometimes happens that two cuckoo's... | |
 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...for the purpose of giving a more secure lodgement to the egg of the Hedge-sparrow or its young one, while the young Cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the nest. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, the back assumes the shape of nestling birds... | |
 | 1823 - 626 pages
...while the young cuckoo is engaged in removing either of them from the nest. When the animal is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, the...birds in general, and at that time the disposition for turning out its companion entirely ceases. The smallness of the cuckoo's egg, which in general... | |
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