Proceedings of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, Volumen 4,Parte 1Manchester institute of arts and sciences, 1903 |
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Términos y frases comunes
April August Bicknell's Thrush Bradford Torrey breeding season C. F. Goodhue C. J. Maynard 72 Carter Notch Celia Thaxter Chocorua coast common spring common summer resident Connecticut valley Dates Dearborn 98 Dublin Pond F. B. Spaulding fall migrant feet Franconia Frank Bolles G. H. Thayer writes Gmel Hampshire Hampton Falls Hanover inland Intervale Isles of Shoals July June Lake Umbagog late Linn male Manchester Merrimack Miss nest Newfound Lake northern noted numbers Nuttall orn observed occasional occur October Oologist pair pine ponds Presidential range records river Rye Beach Saco Saco valley Sandwich range seen September shot single bird small flocks small numbers southern Sparrow species specimen spring and fall spruce sub-Canadian summit taken Thrush trees uncommon upper Canadian Vireo W. E. Cram W. H. Fox Webster White Moun White Mountain region White Mountain valleys William Brewster Winnipesaukee winter resident WOODPECKER woods
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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.
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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.