 ... its load with a jerk, and quite disengaged it from the nest. It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest...  Animal Intelligence - Page 302by George John Romanes - 1891 - 520 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1789 - 562 lehte
...affiflance of its rump and л ings, contrived to get the bird upon its hack, and making a lodgement for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the fide of the neft till it reached the top, where refting1 for a moment, it hrew off its load with a... | |
 | 716 lehte
...altomlhment, faw the young cuckoo, though fo newly hatched, in the aft of turning out the young hedge-fparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The little animal, with the afiiflanceof its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making at. lodgement... | |
 | 1789 - 602 lehte
...hedge-fparrow. " The mode of accompliming this was very curious. The little animal, with the afliftance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgement for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up to the fide of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 646 lehte
...hedge-fparrow. The mode of accompliihing this was very curious. The little animal, with the affiftance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird upon...elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the fide of the neft till it reached the top, where refting for a moment, it threw off its load with a... | |
 | 1790 - 566 lehte
...hedpe fparrow. The mode of accomplifliing this was very curious. The little animal, wi:h theaflillance of its rump and wings, contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgment for theburden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the fide of the neft till it reached... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 lehte
...the affiftance of its rump and wings, contrived (o get the bird upon its back; and making a lodgement for the burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the fide of the neft, till it reached the top ; where refting for a moment, it threw off its load with... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 lehte
...lately hatched, in the act of turning out the young Hedge- sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was curious : the little animal, with the assistance of...the bird upon its back, and, making a lodgment for its burthen by elevating its elbows, clambered backwards with it up the side of the nest till it reached... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 lehte
...astonishment, saw the young cuckoo, though so lately hatched, in the act of turning out the young hedgesparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The...the bird upon its back ; and making a lodgment for its burthen, by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up the side of the nest, till it reached... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 lehte
...astonishment, saw the young cuckoo, though so lately hatched, in the act of turning out the young hedgesparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was very curious. The...rump and wings, contrived to get the bird upon its hack; and making a lodgment for Us burthen, by elevating its elbows, clambered backward with it up... | |
 | 1816 - 338 lehte
...lately hatched, in the act of turning out the young Hedge-sparrow. The mode of accomplishing this was curious : the little animal, with the assistance of...contrived to get the bird upon its back, and making a lodgement for its burden by elevating its elbows, clambered backwards with it up the side of the nest... | |
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