Proceedings of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Volumen 4,Parte 1

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Manchester institute of arts and sciences, 1903
 

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Página 23 - Her head is as big as a child's of a year old ; a very princely bird. When she soars abroad, all sort of feathered creatures hide themselves ; yet she never preys upon any of them, but upon fawns and jaccals. She ayries in the woods upon the high hills of Ossapy, and is very rarely or seldome seen.
Página 53 - Many a May morning have I wandered about the rock at the foot of the tower mourning over a little apron brimful of sparrows, swallows, thrushes, robins, fire-winged blackbirds, many-colored warblers and fly-catchers, beautifully clothed yellow-birds, nuthatches, catbirds, even the purple finch and scarlet tanager and golden oriole, and many more beside, — enough to break the heart of a small child to think of! Once a great eagle flew against the lantern and shivered the glass.
Página 29 - For three miles together, the pigeons nests were so thick, that five hundred might have been told on the beech trees at one time; and could they have been counted on the hemlocks, as well, I doubt not but five thousand, at one turn round.
Página 22 - In the following pages an attempt has been made to bring together all references to extinct American Lymnaeas, together with the original descriptions and figures.
Página 102 - ... crabs they may find, and kill and devour them. Many a rat has caught a Tartar in this perilous kind of hunting, has been dragged into the sea and killed, —drowned in the clutches of the crab he sought to devour; for the strength of these shell-fish is something astonishing. Several snowy owls haunt the islands the whole winter long. I have never heard them cry like other owls ; when disturbed or angry, they make a sound like a watchman's rattle, very loud and harsh, or they whistle with intense...
Página 191 - A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada, based on Nuttall's
Página 29 - I have seen a flight of Pidgeons in the spring, and at Michaelmas when they return back to the Southward for four or five miles, that to my thinking had neither beginning nor ending, length nor breadth, and so thick that I could see no Sun, they joyn Nest to Nest, and Tree to Tree by their Nests many miles together in A'ne-Trees.
Página 6 - These by-laws may be altered or amended at any meeting of the continental congress.
Página 3 - He shall have the custody of the seal of the corporation, and therewith attest and authenticate papers and documents as he may be directed or authorized by the Board of Managers.
Página 195 - GH 1892. The Geological Distribution of Life in North America. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7, 1892, pp. 1-64. 1898. Life Zones and Crop Zones of the United States.

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