Snipe and WoodcockLongmans, Green, 1903 - 298 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 93
Página 4
... ground , and then , taking it in her bill , places it in the nest of some small bird , a nest which the young cuckoo when hatched quickly makes his own by un- ceremoniously ejecting the rightful inhabitants , casting them out to certain ...
... ground , and then , taking it in her bill , places it in the nest of some small bird , a nest which the young cuckoo when hatched quickly makes his own by un- ceremoniously ejecting the rightful inhabitants , casting them out to certain ...
Página 9
... ground of such a bird is unknown and that among the Scolop- acidæ variations in the tints of plumage are very far from rare . Possibly when northern latitudes are more thoroughly explored we may prove Sabine's snipe to be a true species ...
... ground of such a bird is unknown and that among the Scolop- acidæ variations in the tints of plumage are very far from rare . Possibly when northern latitudes are more thoroughly explored we may prove Sabine's snipe to be a true species ...
Página 13
... grounds of the great snipe are Norway , Sweden , Denmark , Russia , Germany , and Holland . The birds reach us between mid - August and early November , and after resting for a shorter or longer time continue their southward journey ...
... grounds of the great snipe are Norway , Sweden , Denmark , Russia , Germany , and Holland . The birds reach us between mid - August and early November , and after resting for a shorter or longer time continue their southward journey ...
Página 15
... ground has been drained , and all kinds of snipe have quitted it ; but I generally get a few elsewhere in the course of the winter's shooting in the county of Wexford . The great snipe usually met with in the British Islands , being ...
... ground has been drained , and all kinds of snipe have quitted it ; but I generally get a few elsewhere in the course of the winter's shooting in the county of Wexford . The great snipe usually met with in the British Islands , being ...
Página 17
... ground whatever for assuming that these are other than home birds ; there is no evidence that the migrant ' cock have begun to arrive till we find them on the coast , and they have never yet appeared on the coast earlier than the first ...
... ground whatever for assuming that these are other than home birds ; there is no evidence that the migrant ' cock have begun to arrive till we find them on the coast , and they have never yet appeared on the coast earlier than the first ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
ALEXANDER INNES ALEXANDER INNES SHAND ANDREW LANG barrel beak beaters bill bird's breeding C. J. LONGMAN choked cloth coast cock Coloured Plates common snipe COOKERY covert Crown 8vo distance doubt drumming snipe dyke Edited England English Essays etc.-continued favourite spots feeding ground fillets fire flight flying frost Froude's J. A. full snipe GEORGE SAINTSBURY Gifford Lectures gilt edges gilt top gunner habits Haggard's H. R. half-bound hooded crow hour Illus Illustrations instinct Ireland Irish jack snipe journey Kerry killed land LL.D Lord M.A. Crown 8vo mandible Maps marsh Max Müller Natural History nest never night numbers partridges pellet pheasants Photogravure plumage Portraits Proctor's R. A. range season shot snipe shooting sound speed sport sportsman Text tions trations twisting vols walk up wind weather wild WILLIAM wings winter wood woodcock woodcock shooting worm yards young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 15 - ROGET.— THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES. Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composition. By PETER MARK ROGET, MD, FRS Recomposed throughout, enlarged and improved, partly from the Author's Notes, and with a full Index, by the Author's Son, JOHN LEWIS ROGET. Crown 8vo, 9s.
Página 2 - May. — THE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND since the Accession of George III. 1760-1870. By Sir THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, KCB (Lord Farnborough). 3 vols.
Página 36 - Milner. — COUNTRY PLEASURES: the Chronicle of a Year chiefly in a Garden. By GEORGE MILNER. Crown 8vo., 3s.
Página 13 - THE METAPHYSIC OF EXPERIENCE. Book I. General Analysis of Experience ; Book II. Positive Science; Book III. Analysis of Conscious Action ; Book IV. The Real Universe. 4 vols. 8vo., 365.
Página 20 - Crown 8vo, 5s. net. Certain of the POETICAL WORKS may also be had in the following Editions : — THE EARTHLY PARADISE. Popular Edition. 5 Vols. 12mo, 25s. ; or 5s. each, sold separately. The same in Ten Parts, 25s. ; or 2s. 6d.
Página 35 - Lang (ANDREW). LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS. Fcp. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net. BOOKS AND BOOKMEN. With 2 Coloured Plates and 17 Illustrations. Fcp. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net. OLD FRIENDS. Fcp. 8vo, 2s. 6V. net. LETTERS ON LITERATURE. Fcp. 8vo, 2s. 6d. net. ESSAYS IN LITTLE.
Página 18 - THEOSOPHY, OR PSYCHOLOGICAL RELIGION. The Gifford Lectures, delivered before the University of Glasgow in 1892. Crown 8vo., 5s. THREE LECTURES ON THE VEDANTA PHILOSOPHY, delivered at the Royal Institution in March, 1894.
Página 14 - Swinburne.— PICTURE LOGIC : an Attempt to Popularise the Science of Reasoning. By ALFRED JAMES SWINBURNE, MA With 23 Woodcuts.
Página 8 - ... I. AFRICA AND AMERICA. With Contributions by Sir SAMUEL W. BAKER, WC OSWELL, FC SELOUS, etc. With 20 Plates and 57 Illustrations in the Text. Crown 8vo., cloth, 6s. net ; half-bound, with gilt top, 9s. net. Vol. II. EUROPE, ASIA, AND THE ARCTIC REGIONS. With Contributions by Lieut. -Colonel R. HEBER PERCY, Major ALGERNON C. HEBER PERCY, etc.