 | 716 pàgines
...deftroyed the tender young, had not affeftion fuggeflcd an expedient, and prompted the parent-birds to hover over the neft all the hotter hours, while....wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they fcrcened off the heat for their fuffering offfPr*S A farther inftance I onco faw of notable fagacity... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1789 - 636 pàgines
...had not affection fuggefted " an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the " ncft all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and " mouths gaping for breath, they fcreened off the heat from " their fuffiring offspring." P. ij . " Some young men went down lately... | |
 | 1797 - 506 pàgines
...became infupportable, and muft inevitably have deltroyed the tender young, had not affeflion fuggefted an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover...all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouthsgaping forbreath, they fcreened off the heat from their fuffering offspring. A farther inftance... | |
 | 1797 - 514 pàgines
...infupportable, and mud inevitably have dellroyed the tender young, had not affi'clion fuggefted arr expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover...all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouth*- gaping forbreath, they fcreened off the heat from their fuffering offspring. A farther inftance... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pàgines
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent Birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while, with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. The female lays four or five eggs : the nest... | |
 | William Granger - 1804 - 688 pàgines
...became infupportable, and inuft inevitably have deftroyed the tender young, had not affe&ion fuggefted an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover...wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they fcresned off the heat from their fuffering offspring. A farther inftance I once faw -of notable fagacity... | |
 | 1816 - 1004 pàgines
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A farther instance I once saw of noble sagacity... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pàgines
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent-birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A farther instance I once saw of notable sagacity... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pàgines
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A further instance I once saw of notable sagacity... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pàgines
...had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest during all the hotter hours; while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. • DESCRIPTION. The length of this species is... | |
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But a hot sunny season coming on before the brood was half fledged, the reflection of the wall became insupportable, and must inevitably have destroyed the tender young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover... 
