 ... six or eight white, glossy, translucent eggs are laid, sometimes on the bare soil, but often on the fishbones which, being indigestible, are thrown up in pellets by the birds, and in any case, before incubation is completed ; these rejectamenta accumulate...  A Dictionary of Birds - Page 478by Alfred Newton - 1893 - 1212 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1888 - 920 lehte
...tunnel bored by itself in a bank, and therein the six or eight white, glossy, translucent eggs are bid, sometimes on the bare soil, but often on the fishbones...brought for their support, soon becomes a dripping fetid mass. The Kingfisher is the subject of a variety cf legends and superstitions, both classical... | |
 | 1902 - 438 lehte
...hole is bored rather slowly, and takes from one to two weeks to complete. Six or eight white glossy eggs are laid, sometimes on the bare soil, but often on the fish bones which, being indigestible, are thrown up by the bird in pellets. The Kingfisher has a crest... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1907 - 350 lehte
...kingfisher prepares its nest, which is at the end of a tunnel bored by itself in a bank, and therein six or eight white, glossy, translucent eggs are laid,...the young are hatched, but, mixed with their fluid excrements and with the decaying fishes brought for their support, soon become a dripping, foetid mass.... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1908 - 350 lehte
...the year the kingfisher prepares its nest, which is at the end of a tunnel bored by itself in a bank, laid, sometimes on the bare soil, but often on the...the young are hatched, but, mixed with their fluid excrements and with the decaying fishes brought for their support, soon become a dripping, fcetid mass.... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - 1923 - 1010 lehte
...Kingfisher prepares its nest, which is at the end of a tunnel bored by itself in a bank, and therein six or eight white, glossy, translucent eggs are laid,...the young are hatched, but, mixed with their fluid excrements and with the decaying fishes brought for their support, soon become a dripping, foetid mass.... | |
 | Ralph Maud - 1998 - 188 lehte
...floating nest might ride uninjured over the waves during the seven proverbial "Halcyon days." And more: Very early in the year it prepares its nest, which...brought for their support, soon becomes a dripping fetid mass. Which gives us lines 42-49 of the poem: It is true, it does nest with the opening year,... | |
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