 | 1872 - 828 páginas
...the pipits had well-developed quills on the wings and back, and had bright eyes partially open ; j-et they seemed quite helpless under the manipulations...cuckoo, which looked a much less developed creature. Each time, the cuckoo, though perfectly blind, made with unerring certainty for the open side of the... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 páginas
...if to make sure that the pipit was fairly overboard, and then subsided into the bottom of the nest. and back, and had bright eyes partially open. Yet...absolutely featherless, as with hands, the ' spurious wings ' (unusually large in proportion) looking like a spread-out thumb. The most singular thing of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 680 páginas
...if to make sure that the pipit was fairly overboard, and then subsided into the bottom of the nest. and back, and had bright eyes partially open. Yet...muscular, and it appeared to feel about with its wings, whicli were absolutely featherless, as with hands, the ' spurious wings ' (unusually large in proportion)... | |
 | 1882 - 876 páginas
...were not yet opened, and its neck seemed too weak to support the weight of its head. Its companions had well-developed quills on the wings and back, and...which were absolutely featherless, as with hands. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for the... | |
 | Phil Robinson - 1883 - 540 páginas
...were not yet opened, and its neck seemed too weak to support the weight of its head. Its companions had well-developed quills on the wings and back, and...which were absolutely featherless, as with hands. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for the... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1888 - 606 páginas
...had welldeveloped quills on the wings and back, and had bright eyes partially open ; yet they ssemed quite helpless under the manipulations of the cuckoo,...to feel about with its wings, which were absolutely feather less, as with hands — the 'spurious wing ' (unusually large in proportion) looking like a... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1891 - 552 páginas
...too weak to support the weight of its head. The pipits (in whose nest the young cuckoo was parasitic) had welldeveloped quills on the wings and back, and...The cuckoo's legs, however, seemed very muscular, aud it appeared to feel about with its wings, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands —... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1897 - 270 páginas
...eyes were not yet opened, and its neck seemed too weak to support the weight of the head. The pipit had welldeveloped quills on the wings and back, and...large in proportion) looking like a spread-out thumb." Considering how rarely we see the cow-bird in our walks, her merciless ubiquity is astonishing. It... | |
 | 1908 - 316 páginas
...head. The pipits had well-developed quills on the wings and back, and had bright eyes partially opened, yet they seemed quite helpless under the manipulations...which looked a much less developed creature." The GREAT SPOTTED CUCKOO of South Europe and North Africa is a species which, though parasitic, does not... | |
 | 1913 - 160 páginas
...future feathers, its eyes were not yet opened, and its neck seemed too weak to support the weight of the head. The pipits had well-developed quills on the...which were absolutely featherless, as with hands." It occasionally happens that almost every nest I meet in a day's walk will show the speckled egg. In... | |
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Pipits had welldeveloped quills on the wings and back, and had bright eyes, partially open ; yet they seemed quite helpless under the manipulations of the Cuckoo, which looked a much less developed creature. The Cuckoo's legs, however, seemed very muscular... 