 | 740 pàgines
...head should frighten the female. In a minute or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time, preening...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | 1847 - 420 pàgines
...face. I remained still, however, when I heard the whirring of another just above me, perhaps the male, but I durst not look towards him, lest the turning...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...sat some little time preening her feathers, and apparently clearing her mouth from the cotton-fibres, for she now and then swiftly projected the tongue...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill - 1847 - 474 pàgines
...flower, began to pluck the moss, until she had a large bunch of it in her LONG-TAILED HUMMING-BIRD. beak; then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | 1851 - 706 pàgines
...head should frighten the female. In a minute or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | 1851 - 642 pàgines
...clothed with soft dry moss, and, hovering on the wing, as if before a flower, began to pluck the mosa, until she had a large bunch of it in her beak. Then...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | 1851 - 638 pàgines
...dry moss, and, hovering on the wing, as if before a flower, began to pluck the moss, until «he bad a large bunch of it in her beak. Then I saw her fly...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | 1865 - 740 pàgines
...head should frighten the female. In a minute or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time, preening...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing, and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pàgines
...head should frighten the female. In a minute or two the other was gone, and she alighted again upon the twig, where she sat some little time preening...having seated herself in it, proceed to place the new material, pressing and arranging, and interweaving the whole with her beak, while she fashioned the... | |
 | John George Wood - 1831 - 802 pàgines
...wait long : a loud whirr, and there she was, suspended in the air before her nest. She soon (•spied me, and came within a foot of my eyes, hovering just...Then I saw her fly to the nest, and having seated Lerself in it, proceed to place the new materials, pressing and arranging and interweaving the whole... | |
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... swiftly projected the tongue an inch and a half from the beak, continuing the same curve as that of the beak. When she arose, it was to perform a very interesting action ; for she flew to the face of the rock, which was thickly clothed with soft dry... 
