Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural HistoryWest, Newman, 1874 |
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... gray sea , to seek some distant and yet uncovered sand - bank on shore . Abundant as the knot is at certain times on our Lincolnshire coast , it is almost impossible to get within shooting distance of their vast flocks without resorting ...
... gray sea , to seek some distant and yet uncovered sand - bank on shore . Abundant as the knot is at certain times on our Lincolnshire coast , it is almost impossible to get within shooting distance of their vast flocks without resorting ...
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... Gray Phalarope . - I am indebted to Mr. Harting for one of the most interesting specimens of this bird in my collection , from the intermediate state of its plumage , partly summer and winter . The date of its appearance , on the 12th ...
... Gray Phalarope . - I am indebted to Mr. Harting for one of the most interesting specimens of this bird in my collection , from the intermediate state of its plumage , partly summer and winter . The date of its appearance , on the 12th ...
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... Gray Shrike . - One shot on Yarmouth Denes on the 27th . Summer Migrants . - A female redstart seen by Mr. Gurney at Trimingham on the 10th ; nightjars heard near Northrepps on the 6th ; Mr. Gurney saw a swallow on the 11th . Wigeon ...
... Gray Shrike . - One shot on Yarmouth Denes on the 27th . Summer Migrants . - A female redstart seen by Mr. Gurney at Trimingham on the 10th ; nightjars heard near Northrepps on the 6th ; Mr. Gurney saw a swallow on the 11th . Wigeon ...
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... gray feathers of the head of the adult were gradually supplanting the darker brown ones of the young bird . I did not see this bird , and was not told of it till more than a month afterwards , as both the keeper and the birdstuffer at ...
... gray feathers of the head of the adult were gradually supplanting the darker brown ones of the young bird . I did not see this bird , and was not told of it till more than a month afterwards , as both the keeper and the birdstuffer at ...
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... Gray was the first to point out this remarkable peculiarity , in the case of Syngnathus , from observing these fish in the aquarium at the Zoological Gardens . In both Syngnathus and Hippocampus the animal usually assumes a vertical ...
... Gray was the first to point out this remarkable peculiarity , in the case of Syngnathus , from observing these fish in the aquarium at the Zoological Gardens . In both Syngnathus and Hippocampus the animal usually assumes a vertical ...
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Página 4028 - A thousand horse, and none to ride ! With flowing tail, and flying mane, Wide nostrils never...
Página 3883 - Sixth annual report of the United States geological survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah, being a report of progress of the explorations for the year 1872, by F. V.
Página 3970 - ... the bank, about ten inches from the margin of the nest, but quite lively after being warmed in the hand. They were replaced in the nest beside the cuckoo, which struggled about till it got its back under one of them, when it climbed backwards directly up the open side of the nest, and hitched the pipit from its back on to the edge.
Página 3933 - I made his acquaintance and saw the happy sense of security with which he hopped about. I took a few specimens home with me, and tried my fowls and ducks with them, but none would touch them. At last, by throwing down pieces of meat, for which there was a great competition among them, I managed to entice a young duck into snatching up one of the little frogs.
Página 3971 - It then stood quite upright on its legs, which were straddled wide apart, with the claws firmly fixed halfway down the inside of the nest, among the interlacing fibres of which the nest was woven ; and, stretching its wings apart and backwards, it elbowed the Pipit fairly over the margin so far that its struggles took it down the bank instead of back into the nest. " After this the Cuckoo stood a minute or two, feeling back with its wings, as if to make sure that the Pipit was fairly overboard, and...
Página 4028 - They stop, they start, they snuff the air, Gallop a moment here and there, Approach, retire, wheel round and round. Then plunging back with sudden bound, Headed by one black mighty steed, Who seem'd the patriarch of his breed, Without a single speck or hair Of white upon his shaggy hide; They snort, they foam, neigh, swerve aside, And backward to the forest fly, By instinct, from a human eye.
Página 4265 - So far as I am aware, no attempt has yet been made to divine the construction of the psychic instrument by means of such dissection.
Página 3840 - LATHAM, Esq., President of the Section, in the Chair. This being the first meeting of the session, the President delivered an address reviewing the past proceeding of the Section, and referring with satisfaction to the proposal to extend its objects to subjects of natural history generally. Mr. Sidebotham read
Página 3933 - He cannot be mistaken for any other, and his naming vest and blue stockings show that he does not court concealment. He is very abundant in the damp woods, and I was convinced he was uneatable so soon as I made his acquaintance and saw the happy sense of security with which he hopped about. I took...
Página 3892 - Ophiacantha, but almost constant, sometimes flashing out at one point more brightly and then dying gradually into comparative dimness, but always sufficiently bright to make every portion of a stem caught in the tangles or sticking to the ropes distinctly visible.