Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural HistoryWest, Newman, 1867 |
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Página 542
... resemblance to Uria troile ( with which species it has often been doubtless confounded ) than to an actual rarity of the Uria lachrymans . In these days of advancing knowledge , science and research , I believe that many species ...
... resemblance to Uria troile ( with which species it has often been doubtless confounded ) than to an actual rarity of the Uria lachrymans . In these days of advancing knowledge , science and research , I believe that many species ...
Página 558
... resemble remarkably , being indeed almost identical with the materials of the nest of our own flycatcher , as far as I have observed . Feathers , be it remarked , are not mentioned by Wilson . The use of red slips of bark I consider a ...
... resemble remarkably , being indeed almost identical with the materials of the nest of our own flycatcher , as far as I have observed . Feathers , be it remarked , are not mentioned by Wilson . The use of red slips of bark I consider a ...
Página 571
... resemblance , either of the entire animals or portions of their organs , with those which were associated with them in such groups , that these arrangements were · based . Various kinds of resemblance were , however , accepted by ...
... resemblance , either of the entire animals or portions of their organs , with those which were associated with them in such groups , that these arrangements were · based . Various kinds of resemblance were , however , accepted by ...
Página 572
... resemblance was only an exaggerated analogy ; and as these analogies ( inore or less complete ) were found to occur throughout nature it might be assumed that they formed an element in creation , and hence that it would be ...
... resemblance was only an exaggerated analogy ; and as these analogies ( inore or less complete ) were found to occur throughout nature it might be assumed that they formed an element in creation , and hence that it would be ...
Página 573
... resemblance was serviceable to the creature , —it was a protective adaptation . So with the moths of the genus Trochilium , which resembled stinging Hymenoptera , but were themselves helpless sluggish creatures , the protection gained ...
... resemblance was serviceable to the creature , —it was a protective adaptation . So with the moths of the genus Trochilium , which resembled stinging Hymenoptera , but were themselves helpless sluggish creatures , the protection gained ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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*.
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 655 - I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.
Página 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.
Página 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...