Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl: Order Anseres (part), Temas126-127U.S. Government Printing Office, 1923 - 307 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
18 feet 20 feet 9 inches adult American amidships April baldpate beam bilge black duck blue-winged teal boat bottom bowsprit breeding built canvasback carvel-built cinnamon teal clipper coast color curved stem deck Dimensions of boat.-Length Dimensions of vessel.-Length diving eclipse plumage eggs equals 1 foot feathers feeding feet 6 inches feet 9 female fishing schooner flocks foremast gadwall gaff Gift grass green-winged teal ground gunwale head hollow hooded merganser Islands June keel vessel keelless Lake Lake Winnipegosis lesser scaup mainmast male mallard Manitoba mast merganser moderately sharp molt neck nest North northern numbers oars one-half inch equals paddles pintail ponds raking stem red-breasted merganser redhead rigged River sail Scale of model scaup duck schooner sharp bow sheer ship side southern species square stern sternpost swimming teal topmast tufted duck two-masted U.S.N.M. Model water line wings winter wood duck wooden yard
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Página 124 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Página iii - The date of publication is recorded in the tables of contents of the volumes. The Bulletins, the first of which was issued in 1875, consist of a series of separate publications comprising chiefly monographs of large zoological groups and other general systematic treatises (occasionally in several volumes), faunal works, reports of expeditions, and catalogues of type-specimens, special collections, etc. The majority of the volumes are octavos, but a quarto size has been adopted in a few instances...
Página 158 - I have frequently been surprised to see them go in and out of a hole of any one of these, when their bodies while on wing seemed to be nearly half as large again as the aperture within which they had deposited their eggs. Once only I found a nest (with ten eggs) in the fissure of a rock, on the Kentucky River, a few miles below Frankfort. Generally, however, the holes to which they betake themselves are either over deep swamps, above cane-brakes, or on broken branches of high sycamores, seldom more...
Página 157 - ... beloved is as sweet as the song of the Wood Thrush to its gentle mate. The female, as if not unwilling to manifest the desire to please which she really feels, swims close by his side, now and then caresses him by touching his feathers with her bill, and shows displeasure towards any other of her sex that may come near.
Página 158 - I have had better opportunities of studying their habits in this respect, they generally pair about the 1st of March, sometimes a fortnight earlier. I never knew one of these birds to form a nest on the ground or on the branches of a tree. They appear at all times to prefer the hollow broken portion of some large branch, the hole of our...
Página 48 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Página 49 - On reaching the bulkhead by which the Battery was then bounded we saw lying against it a vessel about the size of a Whitehall rowboat, in which was a small engine, but there was no visible means of propulsion.
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The University of Missouri Studies University of Missouri--Columbia Sin vista previa disponible - 1932 |