American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States: Illustrated with Plates, Engraved and Coloured from Original Drawings Taken from Nature, Volume 3Collins, 1829 - Birds "The second full edition of Wilson's work, with plates in their most desirable form. This is the most important work on American ornithology before Audubon."--William Reece Company. |
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... bird with all those who love to wander among our woods in spring , and listen to their varied harmony . They will there hear many a singular and sprightly performer ; but none so mournful as this . The hopeless woe of settled sor- row ...
... bird with all those who love to wander among our woods in spring , and listen to their varied harmony . They will there hear many a singular and sprightly performer ; but none so mournful as this . The hopeless woe of settled sor- row ...
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... bird , a figure of the male is here given as large as life , drawn with great care from the most perfect of several elegant specimens shot in the Barrens of Kentucky . He is represented in the act of strutting , as it is called , while ...
... bird , a figure of the male is here given as large as life , drawn with great care from the most perfect of several elegant specimens shot in the Barrens of Kentucky . He is represented in the act of strutting , as it is called , while ...
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... bird is , that not one of all those writers who have attempted its history has taken the least notice of those two ... bird is at rest , hangs in loose pendulous wrinkled folds , along the side of the neck , the supplemental wings , at ...
... bird is , that not one of all those writers who have attempted its history has taken the least notice of those two ... bird is at rest , hangs in loose pendulous wrinkled folds , along the side of the neck , the supplemental wings , at ...
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... bird is flying , lying along the neck in the manner repre- sented in one of the distant figures in the plate . But when these bags are inflated with air , in breeding time , they are equal in size and very much resemble in colour , a ...
... bird is flying , lying along the neck in the manner repre- sented in one of the distant figures in the plate . But when these bags are inflated with air , in breeding time , they are equal in size and very much resemble in colour , a ...
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... bird itself , and bring it near . While uttering this he is usually perched on a rail of the fence , or on a low limb of an apple - tree , where he will sometimes sit , repeating at short intervals " Bob White , " for half an hour at a ...
... bird itself , and bring it near . While uttering this he is usually perched on a rail of the fence , or on a low limb of an apple - tree , where he will sometimes sit , repeating at short intervals " Bob White , " for half an hour at a ...
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appearance Arct belly and vent bill bill black bird blackish breast breeding place BRISS brownish BUFF Clapper Rail coast colour common common Rail common Snipe crown deep diving Duck dusky East Florida edged eggs feathers feed female ferruginous fish flesh flight flocks frequently genus GMEL Goosander grass ground half head Heron hind toe hind-head inches inches in extent inches in length inches long inhabits irides larvæ legs and feet male mandible marked membrane middle nearly neck nest Northern Diver numbers olive orange coloured pale brown PEALE'S Museum Pennant Phalarope Plate Plover plumage pure white quills Rail Red Phalarope reddish reeds resembling river rump salt marshes Sandpiper scapulars season seen shores shot sides Smew Snipe sometimes species specimen streaked Syst tail tail-coverts Temminck tertials throat tipt with white Tringa wing coverts winter yellow yellowish Zool