Cassell's popular natural history, 3–4 tomai;128 tomas1859 |
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88 psl.
... swallowing all its prey entire , and casting up , like owls , whatever is indigestible . • Alcedo ispida . THE COMMON KINGFISHER . 89 Perched on some slender twig. THE COMMON KINGFISHER . * THE BLACK - HEADED KINGFISHER . 88 CASSELL'S ...
... swallowing all its prey entire , and casting up , like owls , whatever is indigestible . • Alcedo ispida . THE COMMON KINGFISHER . 89 Perched on some slender twig. THE COMMON KINGFISHER . * THE BLACK - HEADED KINGFISHER . 88 CASSELL'S ...
118 psl.
... swallowed the young alive . " This bird derives its name from the mistletoe , of the berries of which it is very fond ; its other food consists of slugs , worms , and insects . The nest is generally placed in the fork of a tree ; it ...
... swallowed the young alive . " This bird derives its name from the mistletoe , of the berries of which it is very fond ; its other food consists of slugs , worms , and insects . The nest is generally placed in the fork of a tree ; it ...
198 psl.
... swallowed whole but if the great chafer be given to him , he places it under one foot , pulls it to pieces , and eats it piecemeal . Worms are wholly rejected ; but flesh , raw or dressed , and bread , he eats greedily ; and sometimes ...
... swallowed whole but if the great chafer be given to him , he places it under one foot , pulls it to pieces , and eats it piecemeal . Worms are wholly rejected ; but flesh , raw or dressed , and bread , he eats greedily ; and sometimes ...
211 psl.
... swallowed them entire , after bruising them for some time in its bill . THE UNICORN HORNBILL . + THIS bird is slightly crested ; the abdomen is black , and the sides of the tail - feathers white ; the bill is yellowish , with compressed ...
... swallowed them entire , after bruising them for some time in its bill . THE UNICORN HORNBILL . + THIS bird is slightly crested ; the abdomen is black , and the sides of the tail - feathers white ; the bill is yellowish , with compressed ...
212 psl.
... swallowed a mouthful which , on second thoughts , it considered as somewhat too large , it immediately disgorged it for the sake of a little additional mastication . THE VIOLACEOUS HORNBILL . + THIS bird is of a violaceous black ; the ...
... swallowed a mouthful which , on second thoughts , it considered as somewhat too large , it immediately disgorged it for the sake of a little additional mastication . THE VIOLACEOUS HORNBILL . + THIS bird is of a violaceous black ; the ...
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abundant Amphibia animal animalcules appears attached beak beautiful beetle bill bird body branches breeding brown called caterpillars claws coast colour common common pheasant covered creature deep dorsal fin eagle edge eggs elytra Europe extremely eyes feathers feed feet female fins fish flesh flight flocks frequently frog genus green ground habits hatched head inches inhabits insects islands larvæ legs length less Linnæus living lizards lower male mandible membrane minute molluscs motion mouth native nearly neck nest observed pair parrots pectoral fins peculiar perch plumage prey quadrupeds remarkable reptiles resemble rivers rocks says season seen serpent shell side skin snake sometimes song species specimens spot spring structure surface swallowed tail tarsi Temminck thick tint TITMOUSE toes tortoises toucan trees tribe upper usually vultures whole wings winter woods Yarrell yellow young
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103 psl. - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
164 psl. - While birds, and butterflies, and flowers, Make all one band of paramours, Thou, ranging up and down the bowers, Art sole in thy employment: A Life, a Presence like the Air, Scattering thy gladness without care, Too blest with any one to pair; Thyself thy own enjoyment.
103 psl. - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many Nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping Sound more sweet than all — Stirring the air with such an harmony, That should you close your eyes, you might almost Forget it was not day!
164 psl. - BENEATH these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat, And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together...
235 psl. - Thrice welcome, darling of the spring! Even yet thou art to me No bird, but an invisible thing, A voice, a mystery; The same whom in my schoolboy days I listened to; that cry Which made me look a thousand ways In bush', and tree, and sky.
101 psl. - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
142 psl. - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
334 psl. - Part loosely wing the region; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
8 psl. - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
245 psl. - I would have broke mine eye-strings, crack'd them, but To look upon him, till the diminution Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle ; Nay, followed him, till he had melted from The smallness of a gnat to air; and then Have turn'd mine eye, and wept.