 ... downwards is very broad, with a considerable depression in the middle. This depression seems formed by nature for the design of giving a more secure lodgment to the egg of the hedge-sparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing...  A history of British birds - Seite 46von Francis Orpen Morris - 1852Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1789 - 688 Seiten
...hedgefparrow, or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back at. fumes the ihape of neftling birds in general. Having found that the old hedge-fparrow commonly... | |
 | 716 Seiten
...hcdgefparrow, or its. young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing cither of them from the ncft. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back alfumcs the fhape of neflling birds in general. ( To be coHtaitteJ. ) BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES of Eminent... | |
 | 1790 - 566 Seiten
...youngpne, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up. and then the back aflumes the ihape of nelHing birds in general. Having found that the hedgefparrow commonly throws out... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1790 - 646 Seiten
...young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it is above twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back aifumes the ihape of neftling birds in general. Having found that the hedgefparrow commonly throws... | |
 | 1789 - 682 Seiten
...its young one, when the yonng cuckoo is employed in removing Cither of them from the neft. When it h about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back ;ilfumes the fhape of nettling birds in general. Having found that the old hedge-fparrow commonly throws... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 Seiten
...its young one, when the young cuckow is employed in removing either of them from the neft. When it ii about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, and then the back a flumes the fhape of neftling birds in general. It appears a little extraordinary, that two cuckows... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 Seiten
...the egg of the hedge-sparrow or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the nest. When it is about twelve days...back assumes the shape of nestling birds in general. It sometimes happens that two cuckoo's eggs are deposited in the same nest, and then the young produced... | |
 | 1824 - 544 Seiten
...design of giving a more secure lodgment to any object that the young cuckoo may be desirous of removing from the nest. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite tilled up, and then the back assumes the shape common to nestling birds in general. The same instinctive... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 Seiten
...the egg of the hedge-sparrow or its young one, when the young cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the nest. When it is about twelve days old this cavity is quite fill* ed up, and then the back assumes the shape of nestling birds in general." It appears a little... | |
 | 1829 - 494 Seiten
...the egg of the hedge-sparrow or its young one, while the young Cuckoo is employed in removing either of them from the nest. When it is about twelve days old, this cavity is quite filled up, the back assumes the shape of that of nestling birds in general, and at that time the disposition of... | |
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