The Boy and the BirdsOtis, Broaders, and Company, 1837 - 130 pagina's |
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admire allowed American cousins bark beautiful birds of passage bough breast brown wren build busy called carrion crow catch chimney color cormorants cousin creature cuckoo dare say dear eggs EIDER DUCK fancy feathers fellow flight gannet garden golden eagle GOLDEN-CRESTED ground handsome happy HARVARD COLLEGE hatched hawk head hear heard hole Iceland falcon insects island keep kind LARK leave lichens little bill little blue tit live LONG-TAILED TIT look mate miles moss mother neighbor nest nestling never obliged osprey ourselves parents parus major peep peregrine falcon perhaps pleasant plumage poor pretty prey puffin race rear Red-breast Robin rock rooks Scotland seen Shetland isles sing sitting sometimes song sorry spring summer suppose sure tail talk tell thing TITLING tree warm whip-poor-Will WILLOW WREN wings winter wish wonderful woodpecker woods worm young younkers
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Pagina 6 - Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast The sun ariseth in his majesty; Who doth the world so gloriously behold, That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold.
Pagina 31 - Oft did the cliffs reverberate the sound Of parted fragments tumbling from on high; And from the summit of that craggy mound The perching eagle oft was heard to cry, Or on resounding wings to shoot athwart the sky.
Pagina 128 - Malta, a space computed to be not less than 1,350 miles ! a velocity equal to fifty-seven miles an hour, supposing the hawk to have been on the wing the whole time. But as such birds never fly by night, and allowing the day to be at the longest, or to be eighteen hours light, this would make seventy-five miles an hour. It is probable, however, that he neither had so many hours of light in the twenty-four to perform the journey, nor that...
Pagina 96 - ... makes a vigorous resistance when assaulted. Like most other tyrants and thieves they are cowardly, and accomplish by stealth what they cannot obtain by force. " The deportment of the Yellow-throat on this occasion is not to be omitted. She returned while I waited near the spot, and darted into her nest, but returned immediately and perched upon a bough near the place, remained a minute or two and entered it again, returned, and disappeared. In ten minutes she returned with the male. They chattered...
Pagina 6 - ... person is present. These must be hung in a cage at the window. Generally these obstinate birds are the best singers. Their hasty gait and abrupt movements, and their manner of raising the feathers of the neck and head, afford much amusement. Sylvester's translation of Du Bartas's lines on the Lark " The pretty lark, climbing the welkin clear, Chants with a cheer, here peer, I near my dear ! Then stooping thence, seeming her fall to rue, Adieu, she sayeth, adieu, dear, dear, adieu ! " " "Who has...
Pagina 128 - ... which Solomon expressed himself ignorant ; and there is something truly marvellous in the mechanism which controls the scythe-like sweep of wings peculiar to most birds of prey. The noblest of these, the peregrine, has been seen flying over mid-Atlantic ; and Henry IV., King of France, had a falcon which escaped from Fontainebleau, and in twenty-four hours after was found in Malta, a space computed to be not less than 1,350 miles, a velocity equal to fifty-six miles an hour, supposing the hawk...
Pagina 128 - Cleve flew out of Westphalia into Prussia in one day ; and in the county of Norfolk a Hawk has made a flight at a Woodcock near thirty miles in an hour.