 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 344 страници
...slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old polished ivory. The egg measured two inches and an eighth by one inch and a half. On breaking one of them, the...breeding time ; the person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty yards of the tree, said that he had seen the female, the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 384 страници
...slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old polished ivory. The egg measured two inches and an eighth by one inch and a half. On breaking one of them, the...preceding, and were conjectured to have been shot. he had seen the female, the spring preceding, carry down thirteen young, oue by one, in less than ten... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 страници
...and of the highest polish, and slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old polished ivory." . . . . " This tree had been occupied probably by the same pair...breeding time ; the person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty yards of the tree, said that he had seen the female, the... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 696 страници
...slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old, polished ivory. The egg measured two inches and an eighth by one inch and a half. On breaking one of them, the...same pair, for four successive years, in breeding lime; the person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty yards ot"... | |
 | 1852 - 702 страници
...slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old, polished ivory. The egg measured two inches and an eighth by one inch and a half. On breaking one of them, the young bird was found to be nearlyhatched, but dead, as neither of the parents had been observed about the tree during the three... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 страници
...decayed wood, lay thirteen eggs, snugly covered with down, doubtless taken from the breast of the bird. This tree had been occupied, probably by the same pair, for four successive years, in breeding-time. The person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 страници
...wood, lay thirteen eggs, snugly covered with down, doubtless taken from the breast of the bird. The tree had been occupied, probably by the same pair, for four successive years in breeding-time. The person who gave me the information, and whose house wan within twenty or thirty... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 страници
...grained and of the highest polish, and slightly yellowish, greatly resembling <1 {>olished ivory. " This tree had been occupied probably by the same pair for four successive years in breedingne ; the person •who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 страници
...decayed wood, lay thirteen eggs, snugly covered with down, doubtless taken from the breast of the bird. "This tree had been occupied, probably by the same...breeding time ; the person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty yards of the tree, said that he had seen the female, the... | |
 | Edward Augustus Samuels - 1883 - 666 страници
...slightly yellowish, greatly resembling old. polished ivory. The egg measured two inches and an eighth by one inch and a half. On breaking one of them, the...probably by the same pair, for four successive years, in breeding-time : the person who gave me the information, and whose house was within twenty or thirty... | |
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On breaking one of them, the young bird was found to be nearly hatched, but dead, as neither of the parents had been observed about the tree during the three or four days preceding, and were conjectured to have been shot. This tree had been occupied,... 
