 | William Macgillivray - 1852 - 732 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...subsists upon similar kinds of fish, the sand-launce and young sea-fish forming the principal supply, and upon which it precipitates itself as they rise near... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - 458 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without breaking the eggs or ino Ö oö juring the unfledged young." Further up the Firth the colonies are not so numerous, but... | |
 | Edward Newman - 1861 - 64 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site ; and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...breaking the eggs or injuring the unfledged young." — Mr. Selby. The bird makes a shallow cavity among the sea campion, which abounds on these islands.... | |
 | 1861 - 562 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site ; and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...breaking the eggs or injuring the unfledged young." — Mr. Selby. The bird makes a shallow cavity among the sea campion, which abounds on these islands.... | |
 | Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 676 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...under the general name of 'Sea Swallows.' " Its habits are so like those of the Common Tern, to be described hereafter, that, to avoid repetition, I purposely... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 390 páginas
...selected apart from other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...passing under the general name of ' Sea Swallows.' The eggs of this bird are three or four in number, THE COMMON TERN. 307 placed in a shallow hole scratched... | |
 | sir William Jardine (bart.) - 1876 - 444 páginas
...apart from the other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without...breaking the eggs or injuring the unfledged young." Further up the Firtl the colonies are not so numerous, but their habifl are similar. At low water the... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1884 - 728 páginas
...ground-colour is creamy-white ; average measurements 2 in. by 1-5 in. By the fishermen this species is called, par excellence, ' the Tern,' all the other...genus, and it subsists upon similar kinds of fish, the sand-lance and young gar-fish forming the principal supply. Its flight is strong and rapid, making... | |
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Here a station is selected apart from the other species, generally on a higher site, and the nests are so close to each other as to render it difficult to cross the ground without breaking the eggs, or injuring the unfledged young. Upon this coast it... 