The Illustrated Natural History: BirdsRoutledge, Warne and Routledge, 1862 - 2396 עמודים Contenido> v 1, Mamiferos. v 2, Pajaros. v 3, Reptiles, peces y moluscos. |
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מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abdomen adult America Australia base beak beautiful Bee-eater bill blue body branches breast breeding British birds broad cage central feathers cere chin claws colour common covered creature crest Crow curious curved deep Eagle edges eggs England extremely Falcon feeding feet female flight flocks fourth quills longest Genus grass green grey greyish ground Habitat habits hawk head and neck hind toe Hoopoe Humming-birds inches inhabitant insects Jabiru known larvæ legs little bird male bird mandible mottled native nearly nest Nightjar nostrils Outer toe Parrot peculiar perch Peregrine Falcon Pheasant placed plumage plumes prey pure white quill-feathers quills longest remarkable resemblance season seen seldom short sides slender snowy white sometimes Sparrow species spot streak Sub-family SUN-BIRD swallow Tail long tail-feathers Tarsi throat Thrush tint Titmouse toe long total length tree upper surface uttering Vulture wing-coverts Wings long yellow young birds
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 109 - Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him; All mock him outright by day; But at night, when the woods grow still and dim, The boldest will shrink away!
עמוד 324 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
עמוד 561 - He is of a gay and frolicsome disposition, and half a dozen of the fraternity are frequently seen diving and vociferating around the high dead limbs of some large tree, pursuing and playing with each other, and amusing the passenger with their gambols. "Their note or cry is shrill and lively, and so much resembles that of a species of treefrog which inhabits the same tree that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the one from the other.
עמוד 15 - The force to keep up the momentum of a body moving in a horizontal plane in the air (in which there is so little friction) cannot be great, and this force is all that is wanted. The movement of the neck and body of the condor, we must suppose, is sufficient for this. However this may be, it is truly wonderful and beautiful to see so great a bird, hour after hour, without any apparent exertion, wheeling and gliding] over mountain and river.
עמוד 229 - I carried it out to the open air, and placed it directly in the rays of the sun, in a sheltered situation. In a few seconds, respiration became very apparent ; the bird breathed faster and faster, opened its eyes, and began to look about, with as much seeming vivacity as ever. After it had completely recovered, I restored it to liberty ; and it flew off to the withered top of a pear-tree, where it sat for some time dressing its disordered plumage, and then shot off like a meteor.
עמוד 366 - His note is loud and clear, like the sound of a bell, and may be heard at the distance of three miles. In the midst of these extensive wilds, generally on the dried top of an aged mora, almost out of gun reach, you will see the campanero.
עמוד 15 - Except when rising from the ground, I do not recollect ever having seen one of these birds flap its wings. Near Lima, I watched several for nearly half an hour, without once taking off my eyes: they moved in large curves, sweeping in circles, descending and ascending without giving a single flap.
עמוד 367 - 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. Then he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll, and so on.
עמוד 231 - ... swiftly projected the tongue an inch and a half from the beak, continuing the same curve as that of the beak. When she arose it was to perform a very interesting action ; for she flew to the face of the rock, which was thickly clothed with soft...
עמוד 424 - ... it then takes exercise by hopping in a rapid, but graceful manner, from one end of the upper perch to the other, and descends suddenly upon the second perch, close to the bars of the cage, looking out for the grasshoppers, which it is accustomed to receive at this time.