A Popular Natural History of Quadrupeds and Birds1849 |
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... river Indus , the Leo Felis has retired , leaving to man and civilisation the wilds once ravaged by him . Even the ... river's bank , he watches for the deer or the gi- raffe . His roar in the menagerie is but a child's cry compared with ...
... river Indus , the Leo Felis has retired , leaving to man and civilisation the wilds once ravaged by him . Even the ... river's bank , he watches for the deer or the gi- raffe . His roar in the menagerie is but a child's cry compared with ...
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... river , which in this part abounded in tall rushes . The dogs seemed much to enjoy prowling about and examining every bushy place , and at last met with some object among the rushes which caused them to set up a most vehement and ...
... river , which in this part abounded in tall rushes . The dogs seemed much to enjoy prowling about and examining every bushy place , and at last met with some object among the rushes which caused them to set up a most vehement and ...
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... river or fountain , marks with horror a peculiar waving motion through the jungle - grass , the nature of which she knows full well from the oft - repeated traditional tales of her village . The tiger is at hand , -flight is useless ...
... river or fountain , marks with horror a peculiar waving motion through the jungle - grass , the nature of which she knows full well from the oft - repeated traditional tales of her village . The tiger is at hand , -flight is useless ...
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... rivers , and in the dark recesses of forests , the tiger reigns as lord of every animal , save man and the elephant : the former dreaded for the power which reason bestows , the latter for his crushing strength . But though Eastern ...
... rivers , and in the dark recesses of forests , the tiger reigns as lord of every animal , save man and the elephant : the former dreaded for the power which reason bestows , the latter for his crushing strength . But though Eastern ...
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... river beneath , and the last rays of the sun on the distant clouds , when he was suddenly startled by a noise from behind . Turning round , he saw enough to make a nervous man feel uncomfortable . Nine wolves were slowly advancing upon ...
... river beneath , and the last rays of the sun on the distant clouds , when he was suddenly startled by a noise from behind . Turning round , he saw enough to make a nervous man feel uncomfortable . Nine wolves were slowly advancing upon ...
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Africa amongst ancient animal animal's antelope appearance approach attack bear beasts beautiful beaver bird bird's birds of prey blackcap body bones called camel colour Columbida Corvida creatures crow Dartford warbler deer delight deserts destruction districts domesticated eagle elephant England fact Falconida feathered feet fierce fish forests frequently Gilbert White ground habits hawk herd horns horse hunters hunting hyena Indian inhabitants insects jackdaw Lapland lion living magpie motion native naturalists nature nest night night-jar nightingale numerous observed otter peculiar perhaps Philomela prey quadruped raven reader red deer regions rein-deer remarkable resemble rhinoceros rivers rook seal seen shew singular skin snowy owl sometimes song sound species supposed surprising swallow thousand thrush tiger tion traveller trees tribes trunk varieties vast vulture watch whilst white elephant whole wild wings winter woods young zoological
Popular passages
Page 314 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburden his full soul Of all its music...
Page 44 - By wintry famine rous'd, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave; Burning for blood; bony, and gaunt, and grim. Assembling wolves in raging troops descend; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Page 313 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch...
Page 336 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half-afraid, he first Against the window beats ; then brisk alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is : Till more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Page 313 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit...
Page 12 - Finding that the few indifferent hounds we had made little impression on the enemy, they divided themselves into two or three parties, and rode round the jungle, firing into the spot where the dogs were barking round him — but without effect. At length, after some hours spent in thus beating about the bush, the Scottish blood of some of my countrymen began to get impatient, and three of them announced their determination to march in and beard the lion in his den, provided three of the...
Page 11 - Hottentots on foot : commencing from the spot where the horse was killed, they followed the spoor through grass and gravel and brushwood, with astonishing ease and dexterity, where an inexperienced eye could discern neither footprint nor mark of any kind,— until at length, we fairly tracked him into a large bosch, or straggling thicket of brushwood and evergreens, about a mile distant. The next object was to drive him out of this retreat, in order to attack him in a close phalanx, and with more...
Page 308 - ... to fell them in such a manner that in their descent they might bring down several others; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.
Page 314 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many Nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song...
Page 44 - Or shake the murdering savages away. Rapacious, at the mother's throat they fly, And tear the screaming infant from her breast. The godlike face of man avails him nought.