 | 1799 - Počet stránok 422
...[With an Etching by Mr. Howit.'] BUSTARDS were formerly more, frequent in this ¡(land than at prefent; they are now found only in the open counties of the South and Eait, in the plains of Wiltíhire, Dorfetfhir?, and in fome parts of Yorkfhire; they were formerly... | |
 | 1816 - Počet stránok 338
...formerly more common in this island than at present; they are now found only in the opeu countries of the South and East, in the plains of Wiltshire,...but are now supposed to be extinct there. They are slow in taking wing, but run with great rapidity, and when young are sometimes taken with greyhounds,... | |
 | 1820 - Počet stránok 424
...them) with the following elucidation of the subject :— " Bustards were formerly more frequent in this island than at present ; they are now found only in the open countries of the southand the east, in the plains of Wiltshire; Dorsetshire, and in some parts ef Yorkshire;... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - Počet stránok 362
...meet with a single individual." Bewick also remarks, " that they were formerly more common in this island than at present ; they are now found only in...east, in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the few years that have elapsed since Bewick wrote, this bird has entirely... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - Počet stránok 368
...meet with a single individual." Bewick also remarks, '< that they were formerly more common in this island than at present; they are now found only in...east, in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the few years that have elapsed since Bewick wrote, this bird has entirely... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - Počet stránok 618
...with a single individual." "ewick also remarks, " that they were formerly more common in this land than at present ; they are now found only in the open counties T the south and east, in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - Počet stránok 640
...as not unfrequently to baffle the pursuit of its enemy. Bustards were formerly more common ¡n this island than at present; they are now found only in...Yorkshire ; they were formerly met with in Scotland, but arc now supposed to he extinct there. They are slow in taking wing, but run with great rapidity, and... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1834 - Počet stránok 440
...meet with a single individual." Bewick also remarks, " that they were formerly more common in this island than at present ; they are now found only in the open counties of the south and east—in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the few years that... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - Počet stránok 500
...meet with a single individual." Bewick also remarks, " that they were formerly more common in this island than at present; they are now found only in...east — in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the few years that have elapsed since Bewick wrote, this bird has entirely... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - Počet stránok 450
...meet with a single individual." Bewick also remarks, " that they were formerly more common in this island than at present; they are now found only in the open counties of the south and east—in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and some parts of Yorkshire." In the few years that... | |
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island than at present: they are now found only in the open counties of the south and east, in the plains of Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, and in some parts of Yorkshire ; they were formerly met with in Scotland, but are now supposed to be extinct there. They... 
