The birds of Norfolk, by H. Stevenson (continued by T. Southwell).1866 |
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adult Alfred Newton amongst appearance April arrival autumn beak beautiful black-headed bunting blackcap breeding season British Birds broad brown Brundall chaffinches coast collection colour common Cromer district doubt eggs falcon feathers feeding female flight flocks frequently garden grasshopper warbler grey ground Gurney and Fisher habits hatched hawks heath Hunstanton insects instances J. H. Gurney June killed large numbers late Linnæus locality Lowestoft Lubbock male marshes Messrs migration migratory months naturalists neighbourhood nest Norfolk Norwich Norwich museum notes noticed numbers observed obtained occasionally occurred old birds ornithology pair partridge perched pheasant plantations plumage present preserved probably rare recorded red-legged partridge reed reed-warbler remarks resident rooks scarcely sedge sedge warbler seen shooting shot sparrow species specimen spot spring Suffolk summer tail taken titmouse trees vicinity visitant warbler Westleton whilst wings winter woods Yarmouth Yarrell yellow young birds Zoologist
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Page 361 - They are, under the point of view of religion and philosophy, wholly rotten, and from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in them.
Page 144 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 182 - The coot was swimming in the reedy pond, Beside the water-hen, so soon affrighted ; And in the weedy moat the heron, fond Of solitude, alighted. The moping heron, motionless and stiff, That on a stone, as silently and stilly, Stood, an apparent sentinel, as if To guard the water-lily.
Page 187 - Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun, And there followed some droppings of rain ! But now the fair traveller's come to the west, His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best; He paints the sky gay as he sinks to his rest, And foretells a bright rising again.
Page xxx - These were enlarged and sequestra, from half an inch to an inch and a half in length, were removed.
Page 4 - In the 34th of Edward III, it was made felony to steal a hawk ; to take its eggs, even in a person's own ground, was punishable with imprisonment for a year and a day, besides a fine at the king's pleasure : in...
Page 129 - ... wind, as to be unable to rise again from the ground, and great numbers were in consequence caught or destroyed. This flight must have been immense in quantity, as its extent was traced through the whole length of the coasts of Northumberland and Durham.
Page 149 - A young bird caught on the 5th of August, as it fluttered from the nest, had a general resemblance to the adult, though all the colours were more dull. The wax-like ends to the wing-feathers, the yellow tip to the tail, the black patch between the eye and the beak are all there, whilst the rich mahogany of the under tail-coverts is of a quieter brown; the blooming vinous colour of the head and back has not yet emerged from a homely neutral, and the crest is but just indicated...
Page 320 - Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, How couldst thou thus poor human nature hum ? There's no such season. The Spring ! I shrink and shudder at her name ! For why, I find her breath a bitter blighter ! And suffer from her blows as if they came From Spring the Fighter. Her...
Page 142 - But now behold the greatest of this train Of miracles, stupendously minute ; The numerous progeny, clamant for food, Supplied by two small bills, and feeble wings Of narrow range ; supplied, ay, duly fed, Fed in the dark, and yet not one forgot...