The Oölogist, Volúmenes 1-3J.M. Wade, 1875 |
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Página 41 - A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young, and to teach them to spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing!
Página 40 - I have been surrounded by these birds, pouring forth their loud and liquid calls for days together, without being able to get a sight of them, and it was only by the most determined perseverance and extreme caution that I was enabled to effect this desirable object...
Página 41 - Up and down ! — up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home— A home, if such a place may be, For her who lives on the wide, wide sea...
Página 21 - Canfield gives a more explicit account of the nesting: "I once took pains to dig out a nest of the Athene cunicularia. I found that the burrow was about four feet long, and the nest was only about two feet from the surface of the ground. The nest was made in a cavity of the ground, of about a foot in diameter, well filled with dry, soft horse-dung, bits of an old blanket, and fur of a coyote (Canis latrans) that I had killed a few days before.
Página 57 - When the Chuck- Will's- Widow, either male or female, for each sits alternately, has discovered that its eggs have been touched, it ruffles its feathers...
Página 12 - A solitary individual of this species has once or twice been seen in Pennsylvania. Farther to the westward the swallow-tailed hawk has never, I believe, been observed. Travelling southward, along the Atlantic coast, we find it in Virginia, although in very small numbers. Beyond that state it becomes more abundant. Near the falls of the Ohio a pair had a nest, and reared four young ones, in 1820.
Página 21 - The material on which the young birds rested was at least three inches deep. * * There are very few birds that carry more rubbish into the nest than the Athene; and even the Vultures are not much more filthy. I am satisfied that the A. cunicularia lays a larger number of eggs than is attributed to it in Dr. Brewer's book (four). I have frequently seen, late in the season, six, seven, or eight young birds standing around the mouth of a burrow, isolated from others in such a manner that I could not...
Página 25 - Jr., with the assistance of eminent men of science. The typographical dress and illustrations which have heretofore given character to this magazine...
Página 75 - After the nests are obtained, they are separated from feathers and dirt, are carefully dried and packed, and are then fit for the market. The Chinese, who are the only people that purchase them for their own use, bring them in junks to this market, where they command extravagant prices ; the best, or white kind, often being worth four thousand dollars per pecul,* which is nearly twice their weight in silver.
Página 25 - The typographical dress and illustrations which have heretofore given character to this magazine will be sustained, and it will be of a thoroughly popular nature, so as to interest the general reader as well as the young naturalist. It will continue to be a journal of science-education and for the use of science-teachers.