Cassell's popular natural history, 3–4. köide;43. köide1863 |
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... nearly pervade the membrane of the yolk . It appears that when these vessels are first formed , each branch is accompanied by a vessel carrying yolk into the body of the chick , that there may be a due supply for its sustenance and ...
... nearly pervade the membrane of the yolk . It appears that when these vessels are first formed , each branch is accompanied by a vessel carrying yolk into the body of the chick , that there may be a due supply for its sustenance and ...
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... nearly twenty - five pounds . The cavities in the bones communicate with large air cells , which are distributed in various parts of the body , and which contribute still further to diminish its specific gravity ; and , by means of ...
... nearly twenty - five pounds . The cavities in the bones communicate with large air cells , which are distributed in various parts of the body , and which contribute still further to diminish its specific gravity ; and , by means of ...
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... nearly white . The head and neck are bare of feathers , and covered with a hard , wrinkled , dusky - reddish skin , on which are scattered some short brown or blackish hairs . On the top of the head , which is much flattened above ...
... nearly white . The head and neck are bare of feathers , and covered with a hard , wrinkled , dusky - reddish skin , on which are scattered some short brown or blackish hairs . On the top of the head , which is much flattened above ...
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... nearly of a uniform yellowish white or cream colour , excepting the quills , inner webs , and base of the secondaries : the former are blackish ; the latter , liver - brown , which , on the outer webs , gradually shades into the cream ...
... nearly of a uniform yellowish white or cream colour , excepting the quills , inner webs , and base of the secondaries : the former are blackish ; the latter , liver - brown , which , on the outer webs , gradually shades into the cream ...
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... nearly an inch in breadth at the widest part . All the feathers of the body , wings , and tail , are of a nearly uniform blackish - brown , somewhat THE SOCIABLE VULTURE . lighter on the under than on the upper surface , and on the ...
... nearly an inch in breadth at the widest part . All the feathers of the body , wings , and tail , are of a nearly uniform blackish - brown , somewhat THE SOCIABLE VULTURE . lighter on the under than on the upper surface , and on the ...
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Popular passages
Page 144 - While birds, and butterflies, and flowers, Make all one band of paramours, Thou, ranging up and down the bowers, Art sole in thy employment: A Life, a Presence like the Air, Scattering thy gladness without care, Too blest with any one to pair; Thyself thy own enjoyment.
Page 83 - Wisely regardful of the* embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is; Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 144 - Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.
Page 233 - Walking by the seaside in a calm evening, upon a sandy shore, and with an ebbing tide, I have frequently remarked the appearance of a dark cloud, or rather very thick mist, hanging over the edge of the water, to the height perhaps of half a yard, and of the breadth of two or three yards, stretching along the coast as far as the eye could reach, and always retiring with the water. When this cloud came to be examined, it proved to be nothing else than so much space filled with young shrimps...
Page 285 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Page 290 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 52 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 84 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!
Page 29 - ... 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 eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 144 - Amid yon tuft of hazel trees, That twinkle to the gusty breeze, Behold him perched in ecstasies, Yet seeming still to hover; There! where the flutter of his wings Upon his back and body flings Shadows and sunny glimmerings, That cover him all over. My dazzled sight he oft deceives— A Brother of the dancing leaves; Then flits, and from the cottage-eaves Pours forth his song in gushes...