 | John C. Laskey - 1813 - 146 pages
...frequently run down by Greyhounds. The female makes no nest, but lays her eggs (two in number, about the size of a Goose egg, of a pale olive brown , marked with spots of a deeper colour) on the ground, scratching an hole therein in some dry corn field. She abandons the eggs... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...earth, and sometimes lining it With a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker colour. They hatch for about five weeks, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 pages
...earth, and sometimes lining it with a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker colour. They hatch in about five weeks, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...earth, and sometimes line it with a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker colour. They hatch for about thirty days, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 234 pages
...earth, and sometimes line it with a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a 81 darker colour. They hatch for about thirty days, and the young ones run about as soon as they are... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...the earth, and sometimes line it with a little long grass or straw. They lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker color. They hatch for about thirty days, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
 | John Lawrence - 1837 - 464 pages
...half a dozen species of this bird, two or three of which (African) are crested. The little Buslard, differs only in size, not being larger than a pheasant....spring, laying only two eggs, nearly of the size of a goose-egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker THE AQUATIC SPECIES. 15 hue. They sit... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...earth, and sometimes lining it with a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker colour. They hatch in about five weeks, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...earth, and sometimes lining it with a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker colour. They hatch in about five weeks, and the young ones run about as soon as they are out of the... | |
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They make their nests upon the ground, only just scraping a hole in the earth, and sometimes lining it With a little long grass or straw. There they lay two eggs only, almost of the size of a goose egg, of a pale olive brown, marked with spots of a darker... 