History and description of land birdsEdward Walker, 1816 |
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ash colour bars bill is black birds of prey blue bluish body breast and belly breed brown colour Buff buff colour Buffon Buffon says builds its nest cere Chaffinch chiefly claws black common Cuckoo dark brown DOTTEREL Eagle eyes hazel Falco feeds female lays five Fieldfare five eggs five inches flocks frequently green grey ground hatched head and neck hinder inches in length insects Lark lays four light likewise Lin.-Le male mandible marked middle feathers migrate Motacilla Mountain Finch numbers observed orange colour pale brown pale edges pale yellow places Plover plumage prey quadrupeds quill feathers quills are dusky Red Grouse reddish brown rump rust colour rusty scapulars seen short sides six eggs sometimes song species spotted with black spring streak Swallows tail thighs throat Thrush tipped with white TITMOUSE toes trees tribe upper vent white spot White-tailed Eagle wing coverts winter yellowish
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Strana 218 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Strana xviii - Of hazel, pendent o'er the plaintive stream, They frame the first foundation of their domes; Dry sprigs of trees, in artful fabric laid, And bound with clay together. Now 'tis nought But restless hurry through the busy air, Beat by unnumber'd wings.
Strana 127 - Pour'd out profusely, silent : join'd to these Innumerous songsters, in the freshening shade Of new-sprung leaves, their modulations mix Mellifluous. The jay, the rook, the daw, And each harsh pipe, discordant heard alone, Aid the full concert ; while the stockdove breathes A melancholy murmur through the whole.
Strana 192 - Up springs the lark, Shrill-voiced, and loud, the messenger of morn ; Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted sings Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts Calls up the tuneful nations.
Strana xvii - Nestling repair, and to the thicket some ; Some to the rude protection of the thorn Commit their feeble offspring...
Strana 65 - Third to steal a hawk. To take its eggs even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, together with a fine at the king's pleasure. In...
Strana xviii - In unfrequented glooms, or shaggy banks, Steep, and divided by a babbling brook, Whose murmurs soothe them all the livelong day, When by kind duty fix'd. Among the roots Of hazel, pendent o'er the plaintive stream, They frame the first foundation of their domes; Dry sprigs of trees, in artful fabric laid, And bound with clay together.
Strana 131 - I have never seen an instance where the hedge-sparrow has either thrown out or injured the egg of the cuckoo. ' When the hedge-sparrow has sat her usual time, and disengaged the young cuckoo and some of her own offspring from the shell, her own young ones, and any of her eggs that remain unhatched, are soon turned out, the young cuckoo remaining possessor of the nest, and sole object of her future care.
Strana xvi - Dash round the steeple, unsubdued of wing : Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Strana 312 - It likewise makes a farther use of it in defending itself against the attacks of birds of prey. On such occasions, it throws out the water with such violence, as not unfrequently to baffle the pursuit of its enemy.