At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage: on viewing it, all speculation on the part of the ornithologist is utterly confounded; for there is not the smallest clue afforded him, by which he may be enabled... The New sporting magazine - Strana 91Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1836 - Počet stránok 688
...who has ordained the ostrich to remain on the earth, and allowed the bat to soar through the etherial vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very...clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a very keen and penetrating eye to distinguish them." [VIII. 544.] In one point of view, however, at... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1838 - Počet stránok 438
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage:...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
| John William Carleton - 1845 - Počet stránok 496
...sportsman's memorandum-book in January which will materially assist him in March, and vice versft. This winter the wildfowl, of all kinds, have been...said as to the usual load or the size of shot used in duck-shooting. A hand-gun for ducks should never be less than twelve-gauge, and even if it be wider... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1839 - Počet stránok 430
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1844 - Počet stránok 468
...A tame raven met them on their travels, and killed every bird. At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
| 1854 - Počet stránok 392
...year. Her uncle then read to Annie the following curious account of this fact out of a book :* — " To Him alone, who has ordered the ostrich to remain...the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May the breast and back... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1885 - Počet stránok 708
...through the ethereal vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very short period of the year^should be so completely clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May, the breast and back... | |
| 1886 - Počet stránok 526
...to trace out the cause of the strange phenomenon. The drake, for a very short period of the year, is so completely clothed in the raiment of the female that it requires a keen and penetrating eye to distinguish the one from the other. About the 24th of May the breast and back... | |
| Počet stránok 524
...the sportsman's memorandum-book in January which will materially assist him in March, and vice versa. This winter the wildfowl, of all kinds, have been...said as to the usual load or the size of shot used in duck-shooting. A hand-gun for ducks should never be less than twelve-gauge, and even if it be wider... | |
| Počet stránok 168
...who has ordained the ostrich to remain on the earth, and allowed the bat to soar through the etherial vault of heaven, is known why the drake, for a very...clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a very keen and penetrating eye to distinguish them." [VIII. 544.] In one point of view, however, at... | |
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