 During the breeding season, these birds are lodged in the same houses with the inhabitants, and even in their very bedchambers ; in every apartment are three rows of coarse wicker pens, placed one above another. Each bird has its separate lodge divided...  Class II, Birds, Div. II, Water - Page 219by Thomas Pennant - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Pennant - 1772 - 390 pages
...are the wealth of the fenmen. , During the breeding feafon, thcfe birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers • in every apartment are three rows of coarfe wicker pens placed .one above another ; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1773 - 590 pages
...Scotland. of the Fenmen. During the breeding feafon, theíé birds are lodged in the fame hnu íes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarfc wicker pens, placed one above another ; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1776 - 498 pages
...wealth of the fenmen. GIESI. During the breeding feafon, thele birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarfe wicker pens placed one above another; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - Scotland - 1776 - 508 pages
...wealth of the fenmen. GIISI. During the breeding feafon, theie birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarfe wicker pens placed one above another ; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | Thomas Pennant - 1790 - 500 pages
...wealth of the fenmen. GIESE. During the breeding feafon, thefe birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarfe wicker pens placed one above another ; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | History - 1800 - 576 pages
...are the wealth of the Fenmen. Du»Dg;the breeding feafon,tjhtfe birds arc lodged, in the lame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coar.ie wicker pens, placed one above another; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1807 - 910 pages
...Lincolnshire still furnishes the markets with large quantities of goose-feathers and goose* quills. " During the breeding season, these birds are lodged...rows of coarse wicker pens, placed one above another ; eaeh bird has its separate lodge, divided from the other, which it keeps possession of during the... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...are the wealth of the fenmen. During the breeding feafon, thefe birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarfe wicker pens placed one above another ; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | History - 1809 - 574 pages
...are the wealth of the Fenmen. During the breeding feafon,thefe birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inhabitants, and even in their very bed-chambers : in every apartment are three rows of coarte wicker pens, placed one above another; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...fenmen. During the breeding feafon, thefe birds are lodged in the fame houfes with the inha» bitants, UZzꊱ coarfe wicker pens placed one above another; each bird has its feparate lodge divided from the other,... | |
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