 | 1821 - 276 páginas
...hatched, in the act of turning out the young Hedge-Sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was curious: the little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back; and, making a lodge^ incut for its burthen by elevating its elbows, climbed backwards with it up the side of the... | |
 | 1824 - 498 páginas
...the very act of turning out its companion. The mode of accomplishing this was very extraordinary : the little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for its burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backwards with it up the side of the nest,... | |
 | 1824 - 494 páginas
...in the very act of turning out its companion. The mode of accomplishing this was very extraordinary: the little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making n lodgment for its burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backwards with it up the side of the nest,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 498 páginas
...act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious :-.— The little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bard upon its back, 'and making a lodgement fbi 'the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 páginas
...put the young hedge-sparrow. — The mode of accomplishing VOL. HI. — Y y this was very curious: The little animal, with the assistance of its rump...the bird upon its back, and making a lodgement for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest till it reached... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1826 - 446 páginas
...consequently while it is yet blind, contrives with its rump and wings to get the Hedge Sparrow, or the egg, upon its back, and making a lodgement for its burden by elevating its elbows, clambers backwards with it up the side of the nest, till it reaches the top, where resting for a moment,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 páginas
...hatched, in the act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was curious : the little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for its burden by elevating its elbows, climbed backward with it up the side of the nest,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 páginas
...hatched, in the act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was curious : the little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and, making a lodgment for its burden by elevating its elbows, climbed backward with it up the side of the nest,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 páginas
...in the act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow,. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird on its back, and fnaking a lodgement for the burden, by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 650 páginas
...described by Jenner, in the second part of the Philosophical Transactions for 1788, article 14: — " The little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird on its back, and, making a lodgment for the burden by elevating it« elbows, clambered backwards with... | |
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... of the nest till it reached the top, where, resting for a moment, it threw off its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. 
