...less developed creature. Each time, the cuckoo, though perfectly blind, made with unerring certainty for the open side of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burden down the bank on which the nest was placed. — AWB GREAT AUK (Alca impennis). — Professor...

...less developed creature. Each time, the cuckoo, though perfectly blind, made with unerring certainty for the open side of the" nest, the only part where it could throw its burden down the bank on which the nest was placed. — AWB Atlantic, it is now believed to be c;:t;rcly...

...made no effort to get under and eject it, but settled itself contentedly on the top of it. All this I find accords accurately with Jenner's description...part where it could throw its burthen down the bank. I think all the spectators felt the sort of horror and awe at the apparent inadequacy of the creature's...

...made no effort to get under and eject it, but settled itself contentedly on the top of it. All this I find accords accurately with Jenner's description...part where it could throw its burthen down the bank." The whitish spaces at the base of the rook's beak attracted Mr. Blackwall's attention, as it has done...

...these words : — " The nest .... was below a heather-bush on the declivity of a low abrupt bank .... The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose...part where it could throw its burthen down the bank." This peculiarity my rough sketch could not, and Mr. Gould's plate does not, express. JHB ASTRONOMICAL...

...these words : — " The nest .... was below a heather-bush on the declivity of a low abrupt bank .... The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose...part where it could throw its burthen down the bank." This peculiarity my rough sketch could not, and Mr. Gould's plate does not, express. J. II. B. ASTRONOMICAL...

...these words : — "The ne't .... was below a heather-bush on the declivity of a low abrupt bank .... The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose with which the blind little monster made for the afni side of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burthen down the bank." This peculiarity...

...feel about with its wings, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands, the ' spurious wings ' (unusually large in proportion) looking like a spread-out...part where it could throw its burthen down the bank.' " I was informed by a fellow-passenger in the ttuin when going to Selborne, " that cuckoos eat other...

...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...of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burden down the bank. [The latter remark has reference to the position of the nest below a heather...

...muscular; and it appeared to feel about with its wings, which were absolutely featherless, as with hands. The most singular thing of all was the direct purpose...of the nest, the only part where it could throw its burden down the bank. Which is the more incredible — the conjecture or the conviction ? and is it...