 | 740 páginas
...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also. On the eighth... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1847 - 474 páginas
...then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant; at length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 474 páginas
...then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant ; at length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of... | |
 | 1847 - 420 páginas
...then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant ; at length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of... | |
 | 1851 - 642 páginas
...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of... | |
 | 1851 - 706 páginas
...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also. On the 8th of... | |
 | R. E. - 1851 - 464 páginas
...with a bunch of moss to her nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving, the whole...by the pressure of her white breast, moving round as she sat. The occupants of these beautiful structures are as fairy-like in all their movements and... | |
 | William Charles Linnaeus Martin - 1852 - 312 páginas
...large bunch of it in her beak. Then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new materials, pressing and arranging...; at length she left the' place, and I left also. On the 8th of April I visited the cave again, and found the nest perfected, and containing two eggs,... | |
 | 1865 - 740 páginas
...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also. On the eighth... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 páginas
...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and, having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing and arranging, and interweaving the whole...presence appeared to be no hindrance to her proceedings, though NEST-MAKING. 281 only a few feet distant. At length she left again, and I left the place also.... | |
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... flew to the face of the rock, which was thickly clothed with soft dry moss, and hovering on the wing, as if before a flower, began to pluck the moss, until she had a large bunch of it in her beak; then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated... 
