Trees, shrubbery, orchards, rails, fence posts, and old prostrate logs, are alike interesting to , those, in their humble and indefatigable search for prey ; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most... Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the ... - Página 141819Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 páginas
...prey; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly...he frequents, he leaves numerous monuments of his industry behind him. We there see enormous pine-trees, with cartloads of bark lying around their roots,... | |
| 1820 - 422 páginas
...prey ; but the royal hunter now before us scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest, seeming particularly...sole lord and inhabitant. Wherever he frequents he Iteaves numerous monuments of his industry behind him. We there see enormous pine-trees, with cart-loads... | |
| 1821 - 498 páginas
...prey ; but the royal hunter now before us scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest, seeming particularly...impending timber, his trumpet-like note and loud strokes relound through (lie solitary savage wilds, ot which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant. Wherever... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1823 - 300 páginas
...prey ; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest, seeming particularly...blasted or moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In their almost inaccessible recesses, amidst ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet -like note... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 páginas
...prey; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly...midway to the skies. In these almost inaccessible reccsse*, amid ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpetlike note and loud strokes resound through... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 páginas
...searching for prey in trees, shrubbery, orchards, rails, and old prostrate logs, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest ; seeming particularly...moss-hung arms midway to the skies. In these almost impenetrable recesses, amid ruinous piles of decaying timber, his trumpet-like note and loud strokes... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 páginas
...prey ; but the royal hunter now before us, scorns the humility of such situations, and seeks the most towering trees of the forest; seeming particularly...he frequents, he leaves numerous monuments of his industry behind him. We there see enormous pine trees with cartloads of bark lying around their roots,... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1832 - 462 páginas
...orchard or shrubbery, among rails, fences, or prostrate logs, the present species inhabit the most towering trees of the forest, " seeming particularly...ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet-like notes and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1832 - 516 páginas
...these almost inaccessible recesses, amid ruinous piles of impending timber, his trumpet-like notes and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seerns the sole lord and master." The food of this species, Mr Audubon informs us, consists chiefly... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler, James Wilson - 1833 - 388 páginas
...orchard or shrubbery, among rails, fences, or prostrate logs, the present species inhabit the most towering trees of the forest, " seeming particularly attached to those prodigious cypress swamps.whose crowded giant sons stretch their bare and blasted, or moss-hung arms, midway to the skies.... | |
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