The Minstrelsy of the Woods, Or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign BirdsHarvey and Darton, 1832 - 227 страници |
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... male hatches in his turn , or brings food to the female . So much tenderness and trouble , lavished with- out compensation ; such a sublime and generous self - devotion in the most urgent dangers , proves that this natural and amiable ...
... male hatches in his turn , or brings food to the female . So much tenderness and trouble , lavished with- out compensation ; such a sublime and generous self - devotion in the most urgent dangers , proves that this natural and amiable ...
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... male , and appears to possess greater courage and skill in seizing the prey . The male and female are generally seen near each other , as if pursuing the chase in company , except when the female is detained in her nest by her eggs or ...
... male , and appears to possess greater courage and skill in seizing the prey . The male and female are generally seen near each other , as if pursuing the chase in company , except when the female is detained in her nest by her eggs or ...
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... male is used against magpies , and other small birds ; the female against pheasants , and even hares . The female is usually one third larger than the male , which is therefore , in the language of falconry , called a tercel . This ...
... male is used against magpies , and other small birds ; the female against pheasants , and even hares . The female is usually one third larger than the male , which is therefore , in the language of falconry , called a tercel . This ...
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... male bird re- lieves the female from all further care of them , and completes their education himself , till he can dismiss them from his charge as accom- plished nightingales , to seek their own food , and add their sweet songs to the ...
... male bird re- lieves the female from all further care of them , and completes their education himself , till he can dismiss them from his charge as accom- plished nightingales , to seek their own food , and add their sweet songs to the ...
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... : " And tune his merry throat , Unto the wild bird's note . ' The female black - caps do not arrive till a week or two after the male birds . As soon as BLACK CAP . 1 * they make their appearance , 62 THE BLACK - CAP . The Black-Cap.
... : " And tune his merry throat , Unto the wild bird's note . ' The female black - caps do not arrive till a week or two after the male birds . As soon as BLACK CAP . 1 * they make their appearance , 62 THE BLACK - CAP . The Black-Cap.
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abode ACCIPITRES amid amusing beautiful Bewick birds of prey black stork blackcap bright bullfinch cage capercaile captive cheer colour Common Sandpiper cries cuckoo Cuvier Dartford Warbler delight dwell eagle earth eggs falcon falconry favourite feathers feed female fern-owl flies flight flowers follow forest gentle goat-sucker green green woodpecker grove habits hatched hath haunts hear heard insects JAVA SPARROW little bird little creatures mate morning Motacilla mountain naturalist nature nest never night nightingale notes nuthatch o'er observed ORDER PASSERES ornithologists peculiar petrel plaintive pleasant plumage ptarmigan race raven rest robin rock round season seems seen Selborne sing singular soft song sound sparrow species spot spring stork stormy stormy petrel strains summer swallow sweet thee thou thrush tree tribe voice wanderer warblers watch wave whip-poor-will white stork wild wind wing winter woodlarks woodpecker woods wren young
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Страница 13 - She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. 29 From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. 30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.
Страница 204 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Страница 19 - Kilda's * shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire. Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Страница 145 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Страница 62 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Страница 204 - Part loosely wing the region ; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Страница 164 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist, 'Whispering new joys to the mild ocean— Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Страница 152 - ... wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore. When this ceremony is over, with the last gleam of day, they retire for the night to the deep beechen woods of Tisted and Ropley.
Страница 104 - ... idea of the moaning of the largest goatsucker in Demerara. Four other species of the goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or four yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Who-are-you, whowho-who-are-you." Another bids you, " Workaway, work-work-work-away.
Страница 98 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest.