The Natural History of Ireland: Revised and enlarged by Alfred NewtonReeve, Benham and Reeve, 1850 |
Términos y frases comunes
Antrim appeared August autumn banks Belfast Bay bill bittern black grouse brace bred Brit British Birds brood coast cock colour common common snipe Cork curlew Donegal dotterel Dublin Bay early eggs England feathers feeding flight four frequently gamekeeper godwits golden plover greenshank grey grey plover ground grouse haunts heard heron heronry Ireland island Islay jack snipe Jardine June Kerry killed known lapwing large flocks late latter Linn localities mentioned migration miles month mountains nest north of Ireland noticed numbers observed obtained occasionally October oozy pair Park partridge pheasant plumage procured quails rare redshanks remain remarked ringed plover river river Lagan sandpiper Scotland seen Selby September shooter shooting shore shot species specimen sportsman spot spotted rail spring Strangford Lough summer tide Tralee Tringa visitant Wexford whimbrel wild wing winter woodcocks yards Yarrell Youghal young birds
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Página 166 - ... in the place where I was a boy with what terror this bird's note affected the whole village ; they considered it as the presage of some sad event; and generally found or made one to succeed it. I do not speak ludicrously ; but if any person in the neighbourhood died, they supposed it could not be otherwise, for the night-raven had foretold it; but if nobody happened to die, the death of a cow or a sheep gave completion to the prophecy.
Página 167 - Those who have walked in an evening by the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers, must remember a variety of notes from different water-fowl: the loud scream of the wild goose, the croaking of the mallard, the whining of the lapwing, and the tremulous neighing of the jacksnipe. But of all these sounds, there is none so dismally hollow as the booming of the bittern.
Página 92 - I never hear the loud solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild mixing cadence of a troop of gray plover in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 59 - Instead of lying prostrate on their sides, as is usually the case with dead birds, they have been found sitting with their heads erect and their eyes open, presenting all the semblance of life. This peculiarity, which for some time had attracted considerable attention among sportsmen in the neighbourhood, led to no practical result until about ten days ago, when a covey of ten birds having been found nestled together in this condition, two of the birds, together with the seeds taken from the crops...
Página 167 - It is impossible for words to give those who have not heard this evening call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance, as if issuing from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters.
Página 168 - Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs, is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be filled with a large body of air, and exploded at pleasure.
Página 166 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 59 - For some months past, in certain parts of Hampshire, partridges have been found dead in the fields, presenting a very remarkable appearance. Instead of lying prostrate on their sides, as is usually the case with dead birds, they have been found sitting with their heads erect and their eyes open, presenting all the semblance of life. This peculiarity, which for some time had attracted considerable attention among sportsmen in the neighbourhood, led to no practical result until about ten days ago,...
Página 176 - Tis the last remnant of the wreck of years, And looks as with the wild-bewilder'd gaze Of one to stone converted by amaze, Yet still with consciousness ; and there it stands Making a marvel that it not decays, When the coeval pride of human hands, Levell'd Aventicum, 21 hath strew'd her subject lands.
Página 46 - ... mountain summit undergoes ; — a miniature drawn, too, by a Hand that never errs ! In summer we look upon the beautiful mixture of gray, brown, and black, as resembling the three component parts of ordinary granite — feldspar, mica, and hornblende — among the masses of which the ptarmigan usually resides. Late in autumn, when snows begin to fall about the lofty summits, and partially cover the surface of the rocks, we find the bird pied with white ; and in winter, when they present a ' perfect...