 | 1821 - 444 pagina’s
...bird not generally known to naturalists. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, broken down by the weight of the multitude above, and which in their descent often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves. "When... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 pagina’s
...bird, not generally known to naturalists. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches,...descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completely covered with the excrements... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 372 pagina’s
...returned before ten o'clock, and the great body generally appeared, on their return, a little after noon. I had left the public road to visit the remains of the •ding place near Shelbyville, and was traversing the •^IgUpli.ii' *** woods with my gun, on my... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pagina’s
...bird, not generally known to naturalists. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches,...descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; %vhile the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completely covered with the excrements... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1842 - 634 pagina’s
...under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, which were broken by the weight of the multitudes above, and which in...descent often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completely covered with the excrements... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pagina’s
...which we cannot account. It was dangerous, Wilson says, to walk trader these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, broken down by the weight of the multitude above, and which, in their descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves, while... | |
 | Wonders - 1848 - 496 pagina’s
...found, each containing one young bird only. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches...descent often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves. The young, when beginning to fly, confine themselves to the under part of the tall woods, where there... | |
 | 1848 - 808 pagina’s
...flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent i fall of large b.tuuhis, broken down by the weg!« of the multitudes above, and which in their descent often destroyed numbers of the birds themselvev This is a scene to which we are aware of no paralie. in the nesting-places of the feathered... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pagina’s
...bird not generally known to naturalists. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches,...often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves." We have now given a short account of some of the more remarkable and interesting varieties of the widely-spread... | |
 | William Jardine, P. J. Selby - 1850 - 370 pagina’s
...bird, not generally known to naturalists. It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches,...descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completly covered with the excrements... | |
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It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, broken down by the weight of the multitudes above, and which, in their descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the... 
