Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural HistoryWest, Newman, 1869 |
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adult male animal appearance April beautiful bird bitten black woodpecker blackthroated breeding British brown captured chaffinches Christchurch coast cobra colour common Cow Head dark Dartford Warbler duck EDWARD NEWMAN eggs exhibited eyes Faversham feathers feeding feet female fieldfare fish flock flying four frequently frog genus gray ground gull Gurney immature inches insect instance island January June killed Lacerta Lacerta agilis larva larvæ legs little gull lizard marshes month mouth naturalist nearly neighbourhood nest Newfoundland Norfolk North Lincolnshire northern diver Norwich observed October pair Papilio parasite plover plumage rare razorbill redthroated redthroated diver remarkable Reptiles season SECOND SERIES-VOL seen September settlers shell shot Sibyllina side siredons skin snake species specimen spots summer migrant summer plumage swallowed tail taken throat thrush toad tree variety wings winter woodpecker yards yellow young birds Zool Zoologist
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Página 1540 - Such is the aspect of this shore ; 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there.
Página 1786 - Towards the approach of day, the noise in some measure subsided, long before objects were distinguishable, the Pigeons began to move off in a direction quite different from that in which they had arrived the evening before, and at sunrise all that were able to fly had disappeared. The bowlings of the wolves now reached our ears, and the foxes, lynxes, cougars, bears', raccoons, opossums and pole-cats were seen sneaking off, whilst eagles and hawks of different species, accompanied by a crowd of vultures,...
Página 1540 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon ; Yes, but for these, and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power ; So fair, so calm, so softly sealed, The first, last look by death revealed!
Página 1943 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Página 1786 - Here and there the perches gave way under the weight with a crash, and falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every stick was loaded.
Página 1531 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
Página 1786 - Suddenly there burst forth a general cry of "Here they come!" The noise which they made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed...
Página 1540 - ... start — for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue...
Página 1786 - Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fiftyfive miles. The Pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which there flew lower as they passed the river. Multitudes were thus destroyed. For a week or more, the population fed on no other flesh...
Página 1786 - The uproar continued the whole night; and as I was anxious to know to what distance the sound reached, I sent off...