 | Charles Creighton - 1889 - 378 páginas
...distinctly see what was going forward, and saw the young cuckoo [less than a day out of the shell] in the act of turning out the young hedge-sparrow....wings, contrived to get the bird upon its back, and clambered backward with it up the side of the nest, till it reached the top, where, resting for a moment,... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 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...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 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...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for its burthen by elevating its elbows, clambered backwards with it up the side of the nest... | |
 | Jane Blackburn, Jemima Blackburn - 1895 - 388 páginas
...Jenner' t account, ' Phil. Trans.,' 1788, p. 225. " ' 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 the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest... | |
 | Louis Compton Miall - 1896 - 314 páginas
...of turning out the young Hedge-sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The Cuckoo, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the other Bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for the burden by elevating its elbows clambered backward... | |
 | Charles John Cornish - 1897 - 376 páginas
...very young cuckoo, given by Sir William Jenner in a letter to John Hunter in 1788. Jenner wrote that the 'little animal, with the assistance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird (a young hedge-sparrow) on its back, and making a lodgment for it by elevating its elbows, clambered... | |
 | George Albemarle Bertie Dewar - 1899 - 356 páginas
...in the act of turning out the young hedgesparrow. ' The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal, with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest... | |
 | 1903 - 450 páginas
...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...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest... | |
 | 1909 - 860 páginas
...very act of turning out the Joint tenant of the nest. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal with the assistance of its rump...contrived to get the bird upon Its back, and making a lodgment for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with It up the side of the nest... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 334 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...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... | |
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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. 
