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Common terms and phrasesAmer appearance band Barn Swallow barred Barred Owl bill Biog Bonap branch breed broad brood brownish-black cere claws Cliff Swallow colour Columbia River Crested Flycatcher dark brown distance dusky Eagle edge eggs extremely Falco feathers feet female field filaments find fine first fish five flappings flat flew flies flight flocks Flycatcher flying frequently grass greyish-white ground Hawk head heard inches insects Labrador length light Linn Louisiana lower mandible male mandible manner margined middle Mississippi Kite Mottled Owl Muscicapa neck nest never Nutt observed outer pair pale perched Pewee PLATE plumage prey procured Purple Martin quadrupeds quill longest Red-tailed Hawk sailing season seen seize seldom short shot sides slender Snowy Owl species specimen spot Swains Swallows tail tarsus toes tree twelfths long twig Tyrant Flycatcher upper mandible wing-coverts wings winter woods yards young Popular passagesPage 88 - I wish' the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his living honestly; you may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish for himself, he watches the... Page 88 - ... for the support of his mate and young ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him. With all this injustice, he is never in good case but like those among men who live by sharping and robbing he is generally poor and often very lousy. Besides he is a rank coward: the little king bird not bigger than a sparrow attacks him boldly and drives him out of the district. He is therefore by no means a proper emblem for the brave and honest Cincinnati of America who have driven all the kingbirds... Page 79 - The river is there bordered by a range of high clifls, which, for some distance, follow its windings. I observed on the rocks, which, at that place, are nearly perpendicular, a quantity of white ordure, which I attributed to owls that might have resorted thither. I mentioned the circumstance to my companions, when one of them, who lived within a mile and a half of the place, told me it was from the nest of the Brown Eagle, meaning the White-headed Eagle (Falco leucocephalus) in its immature state. Page 187 - ... for him, would have prevailed around me, as well as in my lonely retreat ! How often have I seen this nocturnal marauder alight within a few yards of me, exposing his whole body to the glare of my fire, and eye me in such a curious manner, that, had it been reasonable to do so, I would gladly have invited him to walk in, and join me in my repast, that I might have enjoyed the pleasure of forming a better acquaintance with him. The liveliness of his motions joined to their oddness, have often... Page 236 - About sunset they began to flock together, calling to each other for that purpose, and in a short time presented the appearance of clouds moving towards the lakes, or the mouth of the Mississippi, as the weather and wind suited. Page 79 - She also had brought a fish ; but, more cautious than her mate, she glanced her quick and piercing eye around, and instantly perceived that her abode had been discovered. She dropped her prey, with a loud shriek communicated the alarm to the male, and hovering with him over our heads, kept up a growling cry, to intimidate us from our suspected design. This watchful solicitude I have ever found peculiar to the female. Must I be understood to speak only of birds? Page 104 - ... the rapidity of lightning, and, suddenly checking itself, reascends, soars away, and is soon out of sight. At other times a flock of these birds, amounting to fifteen or twenty individuals, is seen hovering around the trees. They dive in rapid succession amongst the branches, glancing along the trunks, and seizing in their course the insects and small lizards of which they are in quest. Their motions are astonishingly rapid, and the deep curves which they describe, their sudden doublings and... Page 197 - At other times, it suddenly alights on the top of a fence-stake or a dead stump, shakes its feathers, arranges them, and utters a shriek so horrid that the woods around echo to its dismal sound. Now, it seems as if you heard the barking of a cur-dog; again, the notes are so rough and mingled together, that they might be mistaken for the last gurglings of a murdered person, striving in vain to call for assistance... Page 84 - Osprey while on wing. When the latter rises from the water, with a fish in its grasp, forth rushes the Eagle in pursuit. He mounts above the Fish-Hawk, and threatens it by actions well understood, when the latter, fearing perhaps that its life is in danger, drops its prey. In an instant, the Eagle, accurately estimating... References to this bookFrom Google ScholarSpecies-centered Environmental Analysis: Indirect Effects Of Fire ...Frances C James, Charles A Hess, Dubravka Kufrin - 1997 - Ecological Applications Radar Studies Of Songbird Migration In Coastal New England*WH Drury, JA Keith, WH Drury, JA Keith - 1962 - Ibis Feeding Behavior of North American HeronsJames A Kushlan - 1976 - The Auk The Occurrence And Significance Of Anomalous Reproductive ...Val Nolan Jr, Charles F Thompson - 1975 - Ibis References from web pagesAntiques.("The Birds of America (1827-1838)" by John James Selections from The Birds of America by John James Audubon The Birds of America, Havell Edition John James Audubon's Birds of America Birds of America - ART & HERITAGE COLLECTIONS - JOHN JAMES AUDUBON ... The Birds of America THE BIRDS OF AMERICA- PLATE 121 SNOWY OWL Snowy Owl by JOHN JAMES ... Antiques and the Arts Online - Artist's Proofs from The Birds of ... JSTOR: The Birds of America Audubon's Birds of America - folio - Havell Bibliographic information
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