British birds. The water birdsReligious Tract Society, 1857 - 263 Seiten |
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appearance aquatic Arctic beak beautiful bill bittern breeding season British birds brown called catching close cloth boards coast colour COMMON CRANE common gull COMMON HERON common snipe coots cormorant CORN CRAKE curlew decoys divers diving dotterel dunlin eggs Engravings favourite feathers feeding feet female fens fish flight flocks formerly fowl frequently gannet geese genus goosander goose GRALLATORES grebe grey grey lag ground guillemots gulls habits haunts head herbage heronries inches insects islands isles kittiwake land lapwing legs length male marshes NATATORES neck nest night Norfolk numbers observed occasionally peculiar peewit petrel plover plumage puffin pure white rare resembles rivers rocks ruff SANDERLING sandpipers says seen Shetland shores skua snipe Solitary Snipe species sportsman spot SQUACCO HERON summer surface swan SWIMMING BIRDS trees tribe uttering visitor WADING BIRDS watch weight widgeon wild duck wings winter woodcock worms Yarrell young
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Seite 49 - God;) being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood...
Seite 8 - Or where the Northern ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides...
Seite 49 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Seite 49 - Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Seite 36 - 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.
Seite 111 - ... extended, and with one of her legs appearing a little behind her. Near to it there were two eggs. On my discovering this I lifted up the bird, and underneath her was a nest containing eleven eggs ; these, with the other two, made thirteen in all ; a few of them were broken. I examined the whole of them, and found them, without exception, to contain young birds. This was an undoubted proof that the poor mother had sat upon them from two to three weeks. With her dead body in my hand I sat down...
Seite 24 - The dotterel, which we think a very dainty dish. Whose taking makes such sport, as no man more can wish. For as you creep, or cowr, or lie, or stoop, or go, So, marking you with care, the apish bird doth do, And acting every thing, doth never mark the net, Till he be in the snare which men for him have set.
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Seite 197 - The gull would gobble up and swallow a young eider in less time than it takes me to describe the act. For a moment you would see the paddling feet of the poor little wretch protruding from the mouth; then came a distension of the neck as it descended into the stomach; a few moments more, and the young gulls were feeding on the ejected morsel.
Seite 3 - ... and flowers. Learn some lessons from the birds and the beasts, and the meanest insect. Read the wisdom of God, and his admirable contrivance in them all : read his almighty power, his rich and various goodness, in all the works of his hands.