 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 760 Seiten
...foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, opossums, and pole-cats, were seen sneaking off from the spot, whilst eagles and hawks, of different species, accompanied by a crowd of vultures, came to supplant thru and enjoy their share of the spoil. It was then thar the authors of all this devastation began... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 Seiten
...ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums, and pole-cats, were seen sneak-, ing off, whilst eagles and hawks of different species,...supplant them, and enjoy their share of the spoil." The Ruffed Grouse, Mr Audubon thinks, would make a very important addition to the feathered game of... | |
 | 1833 - 776 Seiten
...howling of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, opposums, and pole-cats, were seen sneaking off, whilst eagles...supplant them, and enjoy their share of the spoil. [Audubon't Ornithological Biography. ICTHYOPHAGI. MR. Km i nit: Occoquan, Vn. April 5, 1838. In the... | |
 | 1844 - 372 Seiten
...which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. It was then that the authors of all this devastation began their entry among the dead, the dying, and the mangled. The pigeons were picked up, and piled in heaps until each... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 Seiten
...bowlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, opossums, and polecats were seen sneaking off, whilst eagles...supplant them and enjoy their share of the spoil." It is not, however, only in their roosting places that these pigeons are attacked, but in their breeding... | |
 | 1836 - 282 Seiten
...which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that we're able to fly had disappeared. It was then that the authors of all this devastation began their entry among the dead, the dying, and the mangled. The Pigeons were picked up, and piled in heaps until each... | |
 | Saturday magazine - 1840 - 1078 Seiten
...which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. It was then that the authors of all this devastation began their entry among the dead, the dying, and the mangled. The Pigeons were picked up, and piled in heaps until each... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 Seiten
...our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, racoons, and opossums, were seen sneaking off, while eagles and hawks of different species, accompanied...supplant them, and enjoy their share of the spoil." Either a roosting-place or a breeding-place of these birds is looked upon by the Indians as their grand... | |
 | 1849 - 96 Seiten
...ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears, raccoons, and opossums, were seen sneaking off, while eagles and hawks of different species, accompanied...supplant them, and enjoy their share of the spoil." Either a roosting-place or a breedingplace of these birds is looked upon by the Indians as their grand... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 322 Seiten
...ings of the Wolves now reached our ears, and the Foxea, Lynxes, Cougars, Bears, Racoons, Opossums, and Polecats, were seen sneaking off: whilst Eagles...came to supplant them, and enjoy their share of the VII. — Birds of the Sparrow kind. The thrush And woorlhirk, o'er the kind,contending throng Superior... | |
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Pigeons began to move off in a direction quite different from that in which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The... 
