 | 1820 - 576 páginas
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 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...their post, or stood still until we passed on. Their plumage is in the finest order, copious, pious, and without the slightest stain. They find great difficulty...to the right and left of us before we could get on. We arrived at the cantonment about sun-set, after a most fatiguing journey of fourteen hours.' The... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 570 páginas
...upon the edge of the precipice, from which they can launch at once into the air; and on entering ngain upon that difficult part of our route, we had to kick...to the right and left of us before we could get on. We arrived at the cantonment about sun-set, after a most fatiguing journey of fourteen hours.' The... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1833 - 478 páginas
...them by the point of its wings and fling it over the rock, yet though it had several hundred feet of clear fall it never recovered itself, but dropped...to the right and left of us before we could get on. We arrived at the cantonment about sunset, after a most fatiguing journey of 14 hours. " In viewing... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - 1833 - 482 páginas
...them by the point of its wings and fling it over the rock, yet though it had several hundred feet of clear fall it never recovered itself, but dropped...to the right and left of us before we could get on. We arrived at the cantonment about sunset, after a most fatiguing journey of 14 hours. " In viewing... | |
 | 1840 - 530 páginas
...launch at once into the air.' Captain Carmichael and his party, in a difficult part of their route, had to kick upwards of a dozen of them to the right and left before they could get on. Prion. (Lacepedo.) Generic Character.—Bill strong, stout, wide, very much... | |
 | 1840 - 524 páginas
...launch at once into the air.' Captain Carmichael and his parly, in a difficult pail ol their route, had to kick upwards of a dozen of them to the right and left before they could get on. Prion. (Lactpedo.) This is the genus Pachyptila of llliger. Generic Character.... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1862 - 782 páginas
...air; and on entering again upon that difficult part of our route, we had to kick upwards of a dozen to the right and left of us before we could get on." — ("Linnean Transactions," vol. xii, p. 490.) Dr. Bennett remarks that, although the smaller species... | |
 | George Bennett - 1967 - 448 páginas
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We had the curiosity to take one of them by the point of the •wings and fling it over the rock; yet, though it had several hundred feet of a clear fall, it never recovered itself, but dropped down like a stone. On this account, when not engaged with... 