The Natural History of Ireland, Zväzok 2Reeve, Benham and Reeve, 1850 |
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Strana viii
... pair have four bands of very dark greyish - brown , which colour prevails on the outer web of the feather next to them , but on its inner web these bands are rufous . This colour , but of a brighter tint , is exhibited throughout the ...
... pair have four bands of very dark greyish - brown , which colour prevails on the outer web of the feather next to them , but on its inner web these bands are rufous . This colour , but of a brighter tint , is exhibited throughout the ...
Strana x
... pair were within that space . A low hoarsely - guttural double note immediately preceded the well - known call of ... pair of old quails rose from the site of each of the four nests before the reapers ; and a fifth pair , having neither ...
... pair were within that space . A low hoarsely - guttural double note immediately preceded the well - known call of ... pair of old quails rose from the site of each of the four nests before the reapers ; and a fifth pair , having neither ...
Strana 5
... pair has built in ivy growing upon a wall about twenty feet high at Castle Warren ( co . Cork ) , the nest being placed not more than six feet distant from a window . In the summer of 1842 , a large holly tree , growing close to the ...
... pair has built in ivy growing upon a wall about twenty feet high at Castle Warren ( co . Cork ) , the nest being placed not more than six feet distant from a window . In the summer of 1842 , a large holly tree , growing close to the ...
Strana 11
... pair with them . The white mottled progeny conspicuously attract attention , and when seen frequenting wild localities often cause surprise to persons unacquainted with the fact . At the Fall of Foyers , Inverness- shire , as well as at ...
... pair with them . The white mottled progeny conspicuously attract attention , and when seen frequenting wild localities often cause surprise to persons unacquainted with the fact . At the Fall of Foyers , Inverness- shire , as well as at ...
Strana 16
... pair bred in a planta- tion near Downpatrick , where they remained until a late period , one of them having been killed on the 12th of November . Observed in turnip - fields at Castle Warren , near Carriga- line , Cork . Seen for ...
... pair bred in a planta- tion near Downpatrick , where they remained until a late period , one of them having been killed on the 12th of November . Observed in turnip - fields at Castle Warren , near Carriga- line , Cork . Seen for ...
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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...