Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volumen5John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 |
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... Habits of the Barn Owl ( Strix flammea L. , Aluco flammeus Fleming ) , and the Benefits it confers on Man . By Charles Waterton , Esq . 9 Fishes new to the British Fauna , contained in Couch's " History of the Fishes of Cornwall . " By ...
... Habits of the Barn Owl ( Strix flammea L. , Aluco flammeus Fleming ) , and the Benefits it confers on Man . By Charles Waterton , Esq . 9 Fishes new to the British Fauna , contained in Couch's " History of the Fishes of Cornwall . " By ...
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... Habits of the Barn Owl ( Strix flámmea L. , Alùco flammeus Fleming ) , and the Benefits it confers on Man . By CHARLES WATERTON , Esq .. THIS pretty aerial wanderer of the night often comes into my room ; and after flitting to and fro ...
... Habits of the Barn Owl ( Strix flámmea L. , Alùco flammeus Fleming ) , and the Benefits it confers on Man . By CHARLES WATERTON , Esq .. THIS pretty aerial wanderer of the night often comes into my room ; and after flitting to and fro ...
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... habits seem to be like those of the bream . CORKWING ( LA BRUS L. GIBBUS L. ) ; Class III . Thoracic Fishes . This species ( fig . 4. ) is about three times as long as it is broad , and much compressed ; jaws equal , mouth narrow , 4 ...
... habits seem to be like those of the bream . CORKWING ( LA BRUS L. GIBBUS L. ) ; Class III . Thoracic Fishes . This species ( fig . 4. ) is about three times as long as it is broad , and much compressed ; jaws equal , mouth narrow , 4 ...
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... habits of the plants and animals that we see around us , not so much with a view of finding out what is uncommon , as of being well acquainted with that which is of every - day occurrence . Nor is this a task of difficulty , or one of ...
... habits of the plants and animals that we see around us , not so much with a view of finding out what is uncommon , as of being well acquainted with that which is of every - day occurrence . Nor is this a task of difficulty , or one of ...
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... habits , and dispo- sitions , is there not found as great a discrepance between individuals of the domestic variety , as exists between the generality of these and the wild cat ? Some , for instance , are docile , gentle , and fondling ...
... habits , and dispo- sitions , is there not found as great a discrepance between individuals of the domestic variety , as exists between the generality of these and the wild cat ? Some , for instance , are docile , gentle , and fondling ...
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Página 419 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 567 - Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 515 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 418 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 235 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 111 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 677 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclined, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.
Página 467 - Humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the Bird of Paradise ; and had it existed in the old world, it would have claimed the title instead of the bird which has now the honour to bear it : — see it darting through the air almost as quick as thought ! — now it is within a yard of your...
Página 577 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Página 16 - Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...