The Faculties of BirdsCharles Knight, 1835 - 338 من الصفحات |
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... sounds Musical ear , according to Le Cat Illustrations from animals • • · Page 32 33 · 35 37 39 40 41 · 46 47 • · 48 . · 50 51 52 · 55 Theory of Dr. T. Brown • · SMELL IN BIRDS Aroma CHAPTER III . Smell in carrion birds Peculiarities in ...
... sounds Musical ear , according to Le Cat Illustrations from animals • • · Page 32 33 · 35 37 39 40 41 · 46 47 • · 48 . · 50 51 52 · 55 Theory of Dr. T. Brown • · SMELL IN BIRDS Aroma CHAPTER III . Smell in carrion birds Peculiarities in ...
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... sound mind will deny the lynx to be the clearest sighted of all quadrupeds , since all naturalists are agreed upon the point * . " There can be little doubt , however , that the agreement thus quoted as an au- thority sprung from ...
... sound mind will deny the lynx to be the clearest sighted of all quadrupeds , since all naturalists are agreed upon the point * . " There can be little doubt , however , that the agreement thus quoted as an au- thority sprung from ...
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... sounds upon the birds , taking care to have the cause thereof concealed from their view . We have , for example , caused a dog to bark behind a wall on the other side of which geese were feeding , without their appearing to take any ...
... sounds upon the birds , taking care to have the cause thereof concealed from their view . We have , for example , caused a dog to bark behind a wall on the other side of which geese were feeding , without their appearing to take any ...
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... sound afloat in the air around t . The substance also is carefully fitted for its office , being very sensible , and composed of a firm though elastic texture of gristle or cartilage , and not of unyielding bone , nor of soft fleshy ...
... sound afloat in the air around t . The substance also is carefully fitted for its office , being very sensible , and composed of a firm though elastic texture of gristle or cartilage , and not of unyielding bone , nor of soft fleshy ...
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... sound distinctly heard , may be demonstrated by a very simple experiment . Place the palms of the hands closely on the ears , so as to press the windings of the funnel flat to the temples , and the sounds which you hear , instead of ...
... sound distinctly heard , may be demonstrated by a very simple experiment . Place the palms of the hands closely on the ears , so as to press the windings of the funnel flat to the temples , and the sounds which you hear , instead of ...
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الصفحة 160 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air he knows him to be the fish-hawk settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and, balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around. At this moment the...
الصفحة 159 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below ; the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air ; the busy...
الصفحة 159 - Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention.
الصفحة 291 - ... of thought or common sense. She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the same manner. She is insensible of any increase or diminution in the number of those she lays. She does not distinguish between her own and those of...
الصفحة 265 - The air was literally filled with pigeons; the light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spots, not unlike melting flakes of snow; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose.
الصفحة 240 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
الصفحة 265 - Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fiftyfive miles. The Pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which there flew lower as they passed the river. Multitudes were thus destroyed. For a week or more, the population fed on no other flesh than that of Pigeons, and talked of nothing but Pigeons.
الصفحة 289 - Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all Places, is more ably by his Will to move the Bodies within his boundless, uniform Sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the Parts of the Universe, than we are by our Will to move the Parts of our own Bodies.
الصفحة 35 - I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...