 WHERB is the person, who, on seeing this lovely little creature moving on humming winglets through the air, suspended as if by magic in it, flitting from one flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course over...  The Natural History of Humming Birds - Pągina 122per William Jardine - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pągines
...RUBY-THROATED HUMMING BIRD. TROCHILRCS COLTJRIS, Linn. PLATE XLVII. MALE, FEMALE, AND YOUNG. WHERE is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature...flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are lightand airy, pursuing its course over our extensive continent, and yielding new delights wherever... | |
 | 1862 - 908 pągines
...of the humming-bird was given by an American naturalist, who made birds his principal study. Where is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature moving on humming wings through the air, hanging as if by magic in it, flitting from one flower to another with motions... | |
 | Salem Town - 1850 - 374 pągines
...sa-li'va; 8. up'wud for uplward; 10. nus'lings for nurs'lings. THE HUMMING-BIRD.' J. AUDOBON. 1. WHERE is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature,...moving on humming winglets through the air, suspended in it as if by magic, flitting from one flower to another with motions as graceful as they are light... | |
 | 1851 - 534 pągines
...the preceding descriptions; we give it as an example of tenderness and delicacy of touch :— ' Where is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature...flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are bright and airy, pursuing its course over our extensive continent, and yielding new delights wherever... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1856 - 108 pągines
...precaution the advances of the season, and retreating with equal care at the approach of autumn. Where is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature...on humming winglets through the air, suspended, as by magic, on it; flitting from one flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are light and... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Buckland - 1863 - 298 pągines
...opportunities for studying this most interesting tribe of animated nature, emphatically exclaims: — "Where is the person who, on seeing this lovely little creature...they are light and airy, pursuing its course over an extensive continent, and yielding new delights wherever it is seen ; where is the person I ask of... | |
 | 1876 - 136 pągines
...who, on seeing this lovely little creature, — he is speaking of the Ruby-throated Humming-bird* — moving on humming winglets through the air, suspended...flower to another, with motions as graceful as they are * Trochilus colubris. 76 THE JEWEL-BIRDS. light and airy, pursuing its course over our extensive continent,... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1891 - 1194 pągines
...unceasingly renewed." Andubon calls the Humming Bird a "glittering fragment of the rainbow," and asks : "Who, on seeing this lovely little creature moving...graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course and yielding new delights wherever it is seen . . . would not pause, admire, and turn his mind with... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1891 - 1220 pągines
...whioli cho Iiaj2 mill,' . . , v , :i nt.Viiir Hirils: it. 01 '•;•<• A orilit.v ru.mrli fr.\» ing on humming winglets through the air, suspended as...graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course and yielding new delights wherever it is seen . . . would not pause, admire, and turn his mind with... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1891 - 1216 pągines
..."glittering fragment of the rainbow,"aud asks : '-Who, on seeing this lovely little creature uioving on humming winglets through the air, suspended as...graceful as they are light and airy, pursuing its course and yielding new delights wherever it is seen . . . would not pause, admire, and turn his miud with... | |
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