The Natural History of Ireland, Zväzok 2Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1850 |
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Strana 9
... mountains , county of Down , bears the name of pigeon - rock , from the cir- cumstance of these birds having once tenanted it . In the remarkable caves at Cong , county of Mayo , I have observed them , and I have read of their ...
... mountains , county of Down , bears the name of pigeon - rock , from the cir- cumstance of these birds having once tenanted it . In the remarkable caves at Cong , county of Mayo , I have observed them , and I have read of their ...
Strana 13
... mountain and the flood . " From the banks above , we may , however , in a serene day , gaze across the lengthened expanse of Loch Ness as it sleeps in azure , and over the steep mountain - sides that rise from its margin richly wooded ...
... mountain and the flood . " From the banks above , we may , however , in a serene day , gaze across the lengthened expanse of Loch Ness as it sleeps in azure , and over the steep mountain - sides that rise from its margin richly wooded ...
Strana 31
... mountains beyond seas , and as we are told in Ireland ( where they call it Cock of the Wood ) , but nowhere in England . " He thus concludes his description : " The flesh of this bird is of a delicate taste and wholesom nourishment , so ...
... mountains beyond seas , and as we are told in Ireland ( where they call it Cock of the Wood ) , but nowhere in England . " He thus concludes his description : " The flesh of this bird is of a delicate taste and wholesom nourishment , so ...
Strana 34
... mountains , ” ( p . 336 ) . The same author , in his " History of Cork , " says of " The black grouse ( Tetrao seu Uro- gallus minor ) : -This species is frequent , and needs no particular de- scription . It inhabits mountains , and is ...
... mountains , ” ( p . 336 ) . The same author , in his " History of Cork , " says of " The black grouse ( Tetrao seu Uro- gallus minor ) : -This species is frequent , and needs no particular de- scription . It inhabits mountains , and is ...
Strana 36
... ) may always be found near a short thick rush , which can be easily seen on the moor , the brown seeds of which form the principal food of the young packs , " ber of black cattle that are kept on the mountains 36 TETRAONIDE .
... ) may always be found near a short thick rush , which can be easily seen on the moor , the brown seeds of which form the principal food of the young packs , " ber of black cattle that are kept on the mountains 36 TETRAONIDE .
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Antrim appeared August autumn banks Belfast Bay bill bittern black grouse brace bred Brit British Birds brood coast cock colour common common snipe Cork curlew Donegal dotterel Dublin Bay early eggs England feathers feeding flight four frequently gamekeeper godwits golden plover grey grey plover ground grouse haunts heard heron heronry Ireland island Islay jack snipe Jardine June Kerry killed known lapwing large flocks larvæ late latter Linn localities mentioned migration miles month mountains nest north of Ireland noticed numbers observed obtained occasionally October pair Park partridge pheasant plumage procured quails rare redshanks remain remarked ringed plover river sandpiper Scotland seen Selby September shooter shooting shore shot species specimen sportsman spot spotted rail spring stomach Strangford Lough summer tide Tralee Tringa visitant Wexford whimbrel wild wing winter woodcocks yards Yarrell Youghal young birds
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Strana 166 - ... in the place where I was a boy with what terror this bird's note affected the whole village ; they considered it as the presage of some sad event ; and generally found or made one to succeed it.
Strana 176 - Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years. And looks as with the wild bevvilder'd gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness ; and there it stands, Making a marvel that it not decays, When the coeval pride of human hands, Levell'd Aventicum, hath strew'd her subject lands.
Strana 167 - Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jacksnipe. But of all these sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.
Strana 31 - A few other writers mention it by the same name, and John Rutty, in 1772, says (Nat. Hist. Dublin, ip 302) that " one was seen in the county of Leitrim about the year 1710, but they have entirely disappeared of late, by reason of the destruction of our woods.
Strana 92 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Strana 176 - gainst tears, and hers would crave The life she lived in ; but the judge was just, And then she died on him she could not save. Their tomb was simple, and without a bust, And held within their urn one mind, one heart, one dust.
Strana 167 - But of all those sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern. It is impossible for words to give those who have not heard this evening call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters.
Strana 168 - Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs, is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be filled with a large body of air, and exploded at pleasure.
Strana 166 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Strana 66 - Seems to be generally distributed over the old world, though, in the south of Europe, it is perhaps as abundant as elsewhere. In Britain they may now be termed only an occasional visitant, the numbers of those which arrive to breed having considerably decreased, and they are to be met with certainty only in some of the warmer southern or midland counties of England. Thirty years since they were tolerably common and regular in their returns ; and even in the south of Scotland a few broods were occasionally...