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" On one of these trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly across from branch to... "
Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial ... - Page 416
publié par - 1873
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 166

1887 - 606 pages
...tells us, a dozen or twenty full-plumaged birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. As soon, then, as the male birds in gorgeous nuptial attire have fixed on a tree on which to exhibit,...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of ..., Volume 2

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. (See Frontispiece.) The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color....
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 39

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 968 pages
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color. The head and neck...
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The golden Americas, Volume 7

John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 pages
...of tree with spreading branches, and large but scattered leaves, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. Mr. W. was a most enthusiastic and indefatigable collector of animal specimens, and brought home 310...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 4

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1870 - 528 pages
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male-birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. The long plumes are raised up and expanded till they form two magnificent golden fans, striped with...
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Darwinism and Design; Or, Creation by Evolution

George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 pages
...natives call it. They raise their wings, stretch out their necks, elevate their exquisite plumes, and between whiles they fly across from branch to branch...waving plumes, in every variety of attitude and motion. These birds, when kept in confinement in the Malay Archipelago, are said to take much care in keeping...
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The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia ..., Volume 3

Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1210 pages
...the base. When seen in this attitude it really deserves its name ; a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings,...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. — Hardwicke and Gray, III. Ind. Zoology ; FD Bennett, Wanderings; Wallace, Malay Archip. ii. 141-220;...
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The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - 1885 - 686 pages
...together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping tiem in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. (See Frontispiece.) The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color....
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 175

1887 - 890 pages
...tells us, a dozen or twenty full-plumaged birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. As soon, then, as the male birds in gorgeous nuptial attire have fixed on a tree on which to exhibit,...
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8

Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 450 pages
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion." No. 2i6bc appears to be nearly the same as No. 42. No. 225 is a variant of No. I35q. WEIL'S TRANSLATION....
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