The Minstrelsy of the Woods, Or, Sketches and Songs Connected with the Natural History of Some of the Most Interesting British and Foreign BirdsHarvey and Darton, 1832 - 227 Seiten |
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... , day and night , their heavenly song ; From earth let feebler notes arise , To join the chorus of the skies . WYARDS , November , 1831 . INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. FIRST ORDER . ACCIPITRES . TO MY BROTHER'S CHILDREN . vii.
... , day and night , their heavenly song ; From earth let feebler notes arise , To join the chorus of the skies . WYARDS , November , 1831 . INTRODUCTION CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. FIRST ORDER . ACCIPITRES . TO MY BROTHER'S CHILDREN . vii.
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... earth ; but the necessi- ties of birds require that they should be able to move freely through the air . To enable them to do this , they are very differently formed from man and other animals . If it were possible for 2 INTRODUCTION .
... earth ; but the necessi- ties of birds require that they should be able to move freely through the air . To enable them to do this , they are very differently formed from man and other animals . If it were possible for 2 INTRODUCTION .
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... earth . It is said that a hawk , hovering in the air , sees from his station a little lark on a clod of earth in the fields , at twenty times the distance at which a man or a dog can perceive it . The kite too , who soars so high over ...
... earth . It is said that a hawk , hovering in the air , sees from his station a little lark on a clod of earth in the fields , at twenty times the distance at which a man or a dog can perceive it . The kite too , who soars so high over ...
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... earth : they constitute moving republics , which traverse the atmosphere at stated periods in large bodies . These bodies perform their aërial evolutions like an army , crowd into close column , form into triangle , extend in line of ...
... earth : they constitute moving republics , which traverse the atmosphere at stated periods in large bodies . These bodies perform their aërial evolutions like an army , crowd into close column , form into triangle , extend in line of ...
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... earth , he breathes the pure air of heaven , and soars upward nearer to the spring of day . He arrives at the term of his voyage , and touches the hospitable land of his destina- tion . He finds there a subsistence prepared by the hand ...
... earth , he breathes the pure air of heaven , and soars upward nearer to the spring of day . He arrives at the term of his voyage , and touches the hospitable land of his destina- tion . He finds there a subsistence prepared by the hand ...
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abode ACCIPITRES amid amusing animals approach beautiful Bewick birds of prey blackcap bowers bright cage called campanero capercaile captive cassique cheer colour cries cuckoo Cuvier delight dwell eagle eggs eyes falcon falconry favourite feathers feed female flies flight flowers forest gentle goat-sucker green green woodpecker grove habits hatched hath haunts hear heard insects JAVA SPARROW le compère little bird little creatures loriot Louisat bonne merises male mate morning Motacilla mountain naturalist nature nest never night nightingale notes nuthatch o'er observed ORDER PASSERES ornithology petrel pleasant plumage quadrupeds race racter raven rest robin rock round season seems seen sing singular skies song sound sparrow species spot spring stoat stork stormy strains summer swallow sweet Tawny Owl thee thou thrush toll too-whit too-whoo tree tribe voice wanderer warblers whip-poor-will white stork wild wing winter woodlarks woodpecker woods wren young
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Seite 202 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Seite 17 - Kilda's * shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young, Strong-pounced, and ardent with paternal fire. Now fit to raise a kingdom of their own, He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, For ages, of his empire ; which, in peace, Unstain'd he holds, while many a league to sea He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.
Seite 24 - Whip-poor-Will,' from the goatsucker, cause such astonishment, as the toll of the Campanero. With many of the feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning and an evening song; and even when the meridian sun has shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated nature, the Campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause.
Seite 141 - The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
Seite 58 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Seite 148 - ... wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore. When this ceremony is over, with the last gleam of day, they retire for the night to the deep beechen woods of Tisted and Ropley.
Seite 162 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began : The winds, with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kist Whispering new joys to the mild ocean — Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave The stars, with deep amaze.
Seite 100 - ... idea of the moaning of the largest goatsucker in Demerara. Four other species of the goatsucker articulate some words so distinctly, that they have received their names from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder the stranger on his arrival in these parts. The most common one sits down close by your door, and flies, and alights three or four yards before you, as you walk along the road, crying, " Who-are-you, whowho-who-are-you." Another bids you, " Workaway, work-work-work-away.
Seite 94 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest.
Seite 29 - ... on his head. To this day, the Kalmucs continue the custom on all great festivals ; and some tribes have an idol in the form of an owl, to which they fasten the legs of the real bird.