Harmonia ruralis; or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds, כרך 1491830 |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 74
עמוד vii
... frequently repeated , it lost all temper and pecked her hand . Their powers of voice are particularly remarkable both in respect to the gifts of nature and the acquirements of art . Col. O'Kelly's famous parrot not only repeated a great ...
... frequently repeated , it lost all temper and pecked her hand . Their powers of voice are particularly remarkable both in respect to the gifts of nature and the acquirements of art . Col. O'Kelly's famous parrot not only repeated a great ...
עמוד viii
... frequently the expression , " I am sick : " when any one asked the bird , " how d'ye do , Poll ? " she would stretch herself out and reply in a melancholy tone , “ I am sick , I am sick . " A parrot kept by Henry VII . in a room of the ...
... frequently the expression , " I am sick : " when any one asked the bird , " how d'ye do , Poll ? " she would stretch herself out and reply in a melancholy tone , “ I am sick , I am sick . " A parrot kept by Henry VII . in a room of the ...
עמוד xiv
... whose young are principally nou- rished by caterpillars . The titmouse , and other small birds , which are frequently seen drawing straws from the thatch of cottages and ricks , search them for flies and other insects which χίν . PREFACE .
... whose young are principally nou- rished by caterpillars . The titmouse , and other small birds , which are frequently seen drawing straws from the thatch of cottages and ricks , search them for flies and other insects which χίν . PREFACE .
עמוד xv
... frequent the large towns for the offal thrown into the streets , and destroy many animals which are noxious while alive , and would be pestilential when dead . Professor Kalm says , that " when the little crows were driven out of ...
... frequent the large towns for the offal thrown into the streets , and destroy many animals which are noxious while alive , and would be pestilential when dead . Professor Kalm says , that " when the little crows were driven out of ...
עמוד xvii
... ten weeks . The first vocal effort of a bird is called a 66 chirp , " which is a single sound repeated at short intervals ; the next is a call , " e 66 which is a frequent repetition of the same note ; PREFACE . xvii .
... ten weeks . The first vocal effort of a bird is called a 66 chirp , " which is a single sound repeated at short intervals ; the next is a call , " e 66 which is a frequent repetition of the same note ; PREFACE . xvii .
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
appears ash-colour beautiful belly bill blackbird Bolton breast breed buff colour Buffon bulfinch cage Canary Canary Islands canarybird chaffinch claws coat cock common covert feathers crested lark Daines Barrington dark dried dull dusky black dusky white edges England Europe eyes are brown feeds female flies flocks frequently FRINGILLA goldfinch grass green ground hair head horn colour inches inhabitants insects kind lark legs and feet lining Linnæus Linnet lower male middle moss MOTACILLA Nest & Eggs NEST AND EGGS nightingale notes observes olive orange colour ornithologists pale brown Pennant PLATE plumage quill feathers redbreast reeds says season SEDGE WARBLER seeds side sing skylark small birds soft sometimes song birds SONG THRUSH sparrow species spots spring Sweden sweet SYLVIA Syst tail throat thrush tips titmouse trees twelve feathers Twite upper variety WARBLER WHINCHAT whole wings winter woodlark woods wren yellow young Zool