 ... gestures as to appear like a wounded and dying bird; the kingfisher darts along like an arrow; fern-owls or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings as it were swim along, while misselthrushes use a wild and...  Rural Sports - 2. oldalszerző: William Barker Daniel - 1812Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 oldal
...natural history. White of Selbourne describes the various flight of birds in the following manner: — " Swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by quick evolutions ; the king-fisher darts along like an arrow; sky-larks rise and fall perpendicularly... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 oldal
...wounded and dying bird ; the king-fisher darts along like an arrow ; fern-owls, or goal-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor ;...evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the bankmartin moves with frequent vacillations like a butterfly. Most of the small birds fly by jerks,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 oldal
...bird ; the king-fisher darts along like an tf row ; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dust over the tops of trees like a meteor ; starlings,...sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distingoislt themselves by rapid turns and quick evolutions ; swifts dash round in circles ; and the... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 oldal
...dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor ; starlings, as it were, swim along ; while missel thrushes use a wild and desultory flight ; swallows sweep over...evolutions ; swifts dash round in circles ; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations, like a butterfly. Most of the small birds fly by jerks,... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 oldal
...wounded and dying bird ; the king-ßshcr darts along like an arrow ; fern-omit, or goal-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor ;...while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight ; twalloai sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 oldal
...wounded and dying bird; the kingfisher darts along like an arrow ; fern owls, or goatsuckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor; starlings, as it were, swim along; while missel thrushes use a wild and desultory flight; swallows sweep over the surface of the ground and... | |
 | T Forster - 1832 - 144 oldal
...bird; the Kingfisher darts along like an arrow; Goatsuckers glance in the dusk over the tops of the trees like a meteor: Starlings as it were swim along,...evolutions; Swifts dash round in circles ; and the Bankmartin moves with frequent vacillations like a butterfly. Most of the small birds fly by jerks,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 oldal
...wounded and dying bird ; the king-fisher darts along like an arrow ; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor;...evolutions ; swifts dash round in circles ; and the bank-martin moves with frequent vacillations like a butterfly. Most of the small birds fly by jerks,... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 oldal
...wounded and dying bird ; the kingfisher darts along like an arrow ; fern-owls, or goatsuckers, glance in the dusk over the tops of trees like a meteor ;...evolutions; swifts dash round in circles; and the hank martin moves with frequent vacillations like a butterfly. Most of the small birds fly by jerks,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 oldal
...king-fisher darts along like a» arrow ; fern-owls, or goat-suckers, glance in the dust over the tow of trees like a meteor ; starlings, as it were, swim...while missel-thrushes use a wild and desultory flight ; swallow sweep over the surface of the ground and water, and distinguish themselves by rapid turns... | |
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