A Familiar History of Birds: Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts, Volumes 1-2John W. Parker, 1835 |
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Albatross amongst appear approach attachment beak bill birds Black-backed Gulls body breed brood Bustard calabashes called Cassowary catch coast cock confined Cormorant Corncrake dart distance diving Ducks eggs Egyptian Plover favourite feathers feeding feet fish flew flight flocks frequently Gannet Geese genus Goose ground Guillemots Gulls habits hatched head Heron Holyhead HORNED SCREAMER hour hundred insects instance island Jabiru Kilda killed King Penguin known land ledge legs length live looking miles mode neck nest never night observed Ostrich pair peculiar Pelican Penguins perch Pheasant Pigeons plumage pouch poultry precipice reared remain rising rocks rope sea-birds season seems seen shores shot singular Sir Edward Parry sitting soon sort South Stack Sparrow species spot Storks supposed Swallows tion trees tribe usually WADERS walking whole wild wings Woodcocks yards young
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Page 254 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Page 262 - Come on, sir; here's the place: — stand still. — How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down 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...
Page 184 - ... the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill...
Page 133 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 183 - Muskles are -. the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude masse or lumpe, which in time commeth to the shape and form of a bird : when it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the...
Page 184 - Lancashire call by no other name than a tree-goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for three pence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses.
Page 166 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.