 | 740 pàgines
...where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long. A loud...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time, preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long : a loud...feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth from the cotton-fibres, for she now and then swiftly projected the tongue an inch and a half from the beak,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long : a loud...feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth from the cotton-fibres, for she now and then swiftly projected the tongue an inch and a half from the beak,... | |
 | 1847 - 420 pàgines
...in the air before her nest : she soon espied me, and came within a foot of my eyes, hovering j ust in front of my face. I remained still, however, when...the whirring of another just above me, perhaps the male, but I durst not look towards him, lest the turning of my head should frighten the female. In... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pàgines
...where 1 could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petitt bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long. A loud...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | 1851 - 706 pàgines
...where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long. A loud...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pàgines
...was, suspended in the air before her nest. She soon espied me, and came within a foot of my eye«, hovering just in front of my face. I remained still,...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | 1865 - 740 pàgines
...where I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long. A loud...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time, preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pàgines
...nest, 280 ACTIONS OF POLYTMUS. not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long. A loud...or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 680 pàgines
...and flew off. I then examined the place, and found, to my delight, a new nest. " I again sat down on the stones in front, where I could see the nest, not...just above me, perhaps the mate, but I durst not look toward him, lest the turning of my head should frighten the female. In a minute or two the other was... | |
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I could see the nest, not concealing myself, but remaining motionless, waiting for the petite bird's reappearance. I had not to wait long : a loud whirr, and there she was, suspended in the air before her nest: she soon espied me, and came within a foot... 
