 ... the salivary glands above mentioned, which dries and looks like isinglass. Their marketable value depends on their colour and purity, for they are often intermixed with feathers and other foreign substances. The swifts that construct these  A Dictionary of Birds - Page 936by Alfred Newton - 1894 - 1212 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - 1901 - 578 lehte
...builds its nest in chimneys. (See iiicaUotr.) The swifts or swiftlets of the genus Collomlia, which inhabit chiefly the islands of the Indian Ocean from the north of Madagascar eastwards, construct the edible birds' iiests which are used by Chinese epicures in the making of soup.... | |
 | 1911 - 1124 lehte
...substances. The swifts that construct these " edible " nests form a genus Collocali a, with many species; but they inhabit chiefly the islands of the Indian...mammals being the lodgers by day and the birds by night. (AN/) SWIMMING (from " swim," AS smmman, the root being common in Teutonic languages), the action... | |
 | 1911 - 1142 lehte
...substances. The swifts that construct these " edible " nests form a genus Collocalia, with many species; but they inhabit chiefly the islands of the Indian...the tropical islands of the Pacific so far as the Marquesas^one species occurring in the hill-country of India. They breed in caves, to which they resort... | |
 | 1911 - 1168 lehte
...substances. The swifts that construct these " edible " nests form a genus Collocalia, with many species; but they inhabit chiefly the islands of the Indian...Madagascar eastward, as well as many of the tropical isjands of the Pacific so far as the Marquesasone species occurring in the hill-country of India. They... | |
 | Thomas Edward Finegan - 1922 - 550 lehte
...its nest in chimneys. (See Swallow.) The swifts or swiftlets of the genus Collocalia, which inhabita chiefly the islands of the Indian Ocean from the north of Madagascar eastwards, construct the edible birds'-nests which are used by Chinese epicures in the making of soup.... | |
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