 | Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...each other, they mount upward with a strong rushing of wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. Then they separate, and each shoots diagonally towards the ground,...round, comes up to the blossoms again, and sucks, and sucks, as if it had not moved away at all. Frequently one alone will mount in this manner, or dart... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...each other, they mount upward with a strong rushing of wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. Then they separate, and each shoots diagonally towards the ground,...round, comes up to the blossoms again, and sucks, and sucks, as if it had not moved away at all. Frequently one alone will mount in this manner, or dart... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pàgines
...upward with strong rushing wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle,...this manner, or dart on invisible wing diagonally upwards, looking exactly like a humble-bee. Indeed, the figure of the smaller Hummingbirds on the wing,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pàgines
...upward with strong rushing wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle,...this manner, or dart on invisible wing diagonally upwards, looking exactly like a humble-bee. Indeed, the figure of the smaller Hummingbirds on the wing,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1862 - 804 pàgines
...upward with strong rushing wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle,...this manner, or dart on invisible wing diagonally upwards, looking exactly like a humble-bee. Indeed, the figure of the smaller Hummingbirds on the wing,... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1872 - 490 pàgines
...ground, like a ball from a rifle, and, wheeling round, comes up to the blossoms again, and sucks rnd sucks as if it had not moved away at all. Frequently...this manner, or dart on invisible wing diagonally upwards, looking exactly like a ' humble bee.' The nest is a minute cup-shaped structure, placed i.pon... | |
 | 1874 - 806 pàgines
...and each shoots diagonally toward the ground, like a ball from a rifle, and, wheeling round, cornea up to the blossoms again, and sucks, as if it had not moved away at all. The figure of the smaller humming-birds on the wing, their rapidity, their arrowy course, and their... | |
 | 1877 - 900 pàgines
...upwards with strong rushing wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle,...and wheeling round comes up to the blossoms again as if it had not moved away at all. The figure of the smaller humming-birds on the wing, their rapidity,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - 1878 - 472 pàgines
...shoots off to him; and then, without touching each other, they mount upwards, with a strong rushing of wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate,...wheeling round, comes up to the blossoms again, and sucks and sucks as if he THE FLYCATCHERS. - .,i:-- -.-: TYOAXT HV VI, IIKU AND FORK-TAH.KD FLYCATCHKR. had... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 416 pàgines
...upwards with strong rushing wings, perhaps for five hundred feet. They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle,...and wheeling round comes up to the blossoms again as if it had not moved away at all. The figure of the smaller hummingbirds on the wing, their rapidity,... | |
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They then separate, and each starts diagonally towards the ground like a ball from a rifle, and wheeling round comes up to the blossoms again, and sucks as if it had not moved away at all. Frequently one alone will mount in this manner, or dart on invisible... 
