Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural HistoryWest, Newman, 1867 |
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Page 539
... feet above the level of the sea , and at least a quarter of a mile from the nearest drop of fresh water . The nests were all placed among the heather , and con- sisted of nothing more than a deep cavity , slightly lined with pieces of ...
... feet above the level of the sea , and at least a quarter of a mile from the nearest drop of fresh water . The nests were all placed among the heather , and con- sisted of nothing more than a deep cavity , slightly lined with pieces of ...
Page 544
... feet blackish gray on their outer surfaces , leaden gray or dusky on their inner surfaces , also on the webs . Claws black . Thigh feathered to within half an inch of the knee . Tail : as before remarked the upper and under tail ...
... feet blackish gray on their outer surfaces , leaden gray or dusky on their inner surfaces , also on the webs . Claws black . Thigh feathered to within half an inch of the knee . Tail : as before remarked the upper and under tail ...
Page 549
... Feet blackish . Third Summer . — As the adult , but that the bastard wing and often some of the primary coverts are marked with black ; the feet are blackish olive or olive - brown . The wing - quills are those of second winter , but ...
... Feet blackish . Third Summer . — As the adult , but that the bastard wing and often some of the primary coverts are marked with black ; the feet are blackish olive or olive - brown . The wing - quills are those of second winter , but ...
Page 550
... Feet black . Bill black . Orbits black . Mouth fleshy yellow . Type of the Primary Quills . - Shafts of the first four blackish smoke- colour ; ends of both filaments and all the lesser filaments black ; the greater filaments black ...
... Feet black . Bill black . Orbits black . Mouth fleshy yellow . Type of the Primary Quills . - Shafts of the first four blackish smoke- colour ; ends of both filaments and all the lesser filaments black ; the greater filaments black ...
Page 551
... feet still black ; orbits of the same colour ; eyes dark brown ; mouth yellow . The head is coloured similarly , or nearly similarly , to the adult in winter ; the back , scapulars and the tertials also as the adult . The dark band is ...
... feet still black ; orbits of the same colour ; eyes dark brown ; mouth yellow . The head is coloured similarly , or nearly similarly , to the adult in winter ; the back , scapulars and the tertials also as the adult . The dark band is ...
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Page 534 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting. martlet, does approve, By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, The air is delicate.
Page 692 - If thou art worn and hard beset With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep, Go to the woods and hills! — No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
Page 561 - Oft in the barns they climbed to the populous nests on the rafters, Seeking with eager eyes that wondrous stone, which the swallow Brings from the shore of the sea to restore the sight of its fledglings ; Lucky was he who found that stone in the nest of the swallow ! Thus passed a few swift years, and they no longer were children.
Page 661 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
Page 661 - Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses*.
Page 531 - When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks, The cuckoo then on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
Page 931 - And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another : but the birds divided he not.
Page 655 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Page 931 - O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
Page 661 - But what our eyes have seen and our hands have touched" continues the Author, doubtless with full sincerity, " we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders...