The Birds of Essex County, MassachusettsThe Club, 1905 - 352 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant Accidental visitor April August autumn bill birds Birds of Massachusetts Black Ducks Black-bellied Plover Boston breast breeding Brewster Bull C. J. Maynard Cape Ann Club coast Common summer resident Common Tern Common transient visitor Crows December decoys early Eggs Essex County Essex Inst F. W. Putnam feathers feeding feet female flight flying Gmel grass Gulls gunners heard Horned Larks immature Ipswich Beach Ipswich dunes Ipswich River Ipswich Sparrow Island J. A. Allen January July June Linn Longspurs Lynn Magnolia Marsh Wrens Merganser migrations Naturalist's Guide nest notes November Nuttall Orn occasionally October Oologist Ornithologist Peabody Academy collection Plover plumage ponds Proc record Red-breasted Merganser River salt marshes sand dunes Sandpiper Scoters seen Semipalmated Sandpiper September shore birds shot Snow Buntings sometimes song species specimen spring Swampscott tail taken Terns Tree Swallows uncommon W. A. Jeffries Warbler Wenham Lake wings winter visitor Wrens
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Página 51 - The startled waves leap over it ; the storm Smites it with all the scourges of the rain, And steadily against its solid form Press the great shoulders of the hurricane. The sea-bird wheeling round it, with the din Of wings and winds and solitary cries, Blinded and maddened by the light within, Dashes himself against the glare, and dies.
Página 4 - Amesbury, Andover, Beverly, Boxford, Danvers, Essex, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester, Marblehead, Merrimac, Methuen, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Andover, Peabody, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsneld, Wenham and West Newbury, in the county of Essex; and North Reading, in the county of Middlesex.
Página 63 - Snow, when hee may follow them by their tracts; some have killed ten or a dozen in halfe a day; if they can be found towards an evening and watched where they peirch, if one come about ten or eleaven of the clocke he may shoote as often as he will, they will sit, unlesse they be slenderly wounded.
Página 59 - These Pengwins are as bigge as Geese, and flye not, for they have but a little short wing, and they multiply so infinitely upon a certain flat island that men drive them from thence upon a board into their boats by hundreds at a time...
Página 34 - Agowamme* is nine miles to the North from Salem, which is one of the most spatious places for a plantation, being neare the sea, it aboundeth with fish, and flesh of fowles and beasts, great Meads and Marshes and plaine plowing grounds, many good rivers and harbours and no rattle snakes.
Página 326 - MAYNARD, CJ The Birds of Eastern North America. With Original Descriptions of all the Species which occur East of the Mississippi River between the Arctic Circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with Full Notes on their Habits, etc.
Página 92 - MY AVIARY THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather, — My airy oriel on the river shore, — I watch the sea-fowl as they flock together AVhere late the boatman flashed his dripping oar.
Página 326 - AMONG THE WATER-FOWL. Observation, Adventure, Photography. A Popular Narrative Account of the Water-fowl as Found in the Northern and Middle States and Lower Canada, East of the Rocky Mountains.
Página 327 - Reports — on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds; the Herbaceous Plants and Quadrupeds; the Insects Injurious to Vegetation ; and the Invertebrate Animals of Massachusetts. Published agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State.
Página 62 - Plover, the other as big as birds we call knots in England. Such is the simplicity of the smaller sorts of these birds, that one may drive them on a...