 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible, occasionally dipt into and ploughing the surface, and the facility with...the dashing immersions of the tern, the gull, or the fish hawk, who, to the superficial observer, appear so superiorly accommodated. The sheerwater is most... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long hending neck, and lower mandible, occasionally dipt into and ploughing the surface, and the facility with which he procures his food, cannot hut consider it a mere playful amusement, when compared with the dashing immersions of the tern, the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...and lower mandible, occasionally dipt into and ploughing the surface, and the facility with which ho procures his food, cannot but consider it a mere playful amusement when compared with the dashing 11LACK SKIMMF.U, OR SHEF.RWATER. 379 immersions of the Tern, the Gull, or the Fish- Hawk, who, to the... | |
 | Richard James Morrison - عدد الصفحات: 768
...observed the possessor with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally dipt into and ploughing the surface, and the facility with...superficial observer, appear so superiorly accommodated." ANECDOTE OR A PKRSIAN GREYHOUNDf. [From Sir Robert Kerr Porter's Travels in Georgia, Persia, &c.] "... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 1008
...observes the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally dipt into and ploughing the surface, and the facility with...immersions of the tern, the gull, or the fish-hawk, who, to a superficial observer, appear so much better accommodated. The laughing gull, known in America by... | |
 | 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...has attentively examined this curious apparatus, and observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally...sheerwater is most frequently seen skimming close alongshore, about the first of the flood. I have observed eight or ten in company passing and repassing... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...with his ample wings, long, bending neck, and lower mandible, occasionally dipped into and plowing the surface, and the facility with which he procures...observer, appear so superiorly accommodated. " The Shearwater is most frequently seen skimming close along shore about the first of the flood, at which... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...with sufficient speed, so that whoever (says Wilson) has observed the facility with which the rynchops procures his food, cannot but consider it a mere playful...immersions of the tern, the gull, or the fishhawk, which to the superficial observer appear so much better equipped. Beak of the BoatbiU. Beak of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...has attentively examined this curious apparatus, and observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally...Sheerwater is most frequently seen skimming close along shore, about the first of the flood. I have observed eight or ten in company passing and repassing... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...has attentively examined this curious apparatus, and observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally...and the facility with which he procures his food, canuot but consider it a mere playful amusement, when compared with the dashing immersions of the tern,... | |
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... measuring nineteen inches in length, and upwards of forty-four in extent. In short, whoever has attentively examined this curious apparatus, and observed the possessor, with his ample wings, long bending neck, and lower mandible occasionally dipped... 
