... have many modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers ; the woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; the fern-owl or goat-sucker,... The Natural History of Selborne - Página 267por Gilbert White - 1843 - 398 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; thefern-oid, от goat-sucker, from the dusk till day -break, serenades his mate with the clattering... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 páginas
...emblems of despairing lovers the woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; the fern owl, or goat-sucker, from the dusk till day-break, serenades...modulations, and a variety of melody. The swallow, by a shrill alarm, bespeaks the attention of the other hirundines, and bids them beware that the hawk... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; the fern -oral, or gvat-sackcr, from the dusk till day-break, serenades his mate with the clattering of... | |
| Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; the fern owl, or goat sucker, from the dusk till daybreak, serenades his mate with the clattering of castanets.... | |
| S. Waring - 1832 - 280 páginas
...note, which he compared to the clattering of castanets.* He " " The Fern-Owl," says this naturalist, " from the dusk till day-break, serenades his mate with the clattering of castanets." mentions it, among other sources of interest, in the Naturalist's Summer Evening Walk, in an elegantly... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...castanets. All the tuneful passeres express their * Mr John Thomson of Hull says, " Some tench, which I caught in ponds, made a croaking like a frog... | |
| Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...serenades his mate with the clattering of castanets. AH the tuneful Passeres express their complacency by sweet modulations, and a variety of melody. The... | |
| 1848 - 796 páginas
...appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and arc emblems of despairing lovers ; the wood-pecker sets...serenades his mate with the clattering of castanets. Л11 the tuneful pastcrcs express their complacency by sweet modulations, and a variety of melody.... | |
| Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds ; doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...complacency by sweet modulations, and a variety of mslody. The swallow, as has been observed in a former letter, by a shrill alarm bespeaks the attention... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1858 - 798 páginas
...modulations of voice, as appears by their aptitude to learn human sounds. Doves coo in an amorous and mournful manner, and are emblems of despairing lovers...woodpecker sets up a sort of loud and hearty laugh ; the fern owl, or goatsucker, from the dusk to daylight serenades his mate with the chattering of castanets.... | |
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