 I have often stopped with pleasure to observe his manoeuvres among the blossoms of the trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises or suspends himself on wing, for the space of two or three seconds, so steadily...  The Natural History of Humming Birds - Pàgina 93per William Jardine - 1845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1826 - 952 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of them that are full-blown, he poises, or suspends himself on wing for the space...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist; and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye looking round with great quickness and circumspection... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 464 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises, or suspends himself on wing, for the space...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist; and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye looking round with great quickness and circumspection... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 372 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises, or suspends himself on wing, for the space...wings become invisible, or only like a mist ; and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye looking round with great quickness and circumspection... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - 1832 - 576 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these, that are full blown, he poises, or suspends, himself on wing, for the space...steadily, that his wings become invisible, or only tike a mist; and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his «ye looking round with great quickness... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pàgines
...the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these, that are full blown, he suspends himself on wing for the space of two or three...that his wings become invisible, or only like a mist; the glossy golden green of his back, and the fire of his thftat, dazzling in the sun, form altogether... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pàgines
...Ihe blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these, that are full blown, he suspends himself on wing for the space of two or three...that his wings become invisible, or only like a mist; the glossy golden green of his back, and fire of his throat, dazzling in the sun, form altogether an... | |
 | 1837 - 844 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises or suspends himself on wing, for the space...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist, and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye, looking round with great quickness and circumspection... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1836 - 434 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises or suspends himself on wing, for the space...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist, and you can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye, looking round with great quickness and circumspection... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - 1839 - 934 pàgines
...the blossoms of the trumpet flower. When arrived before a thicket of these, that are full blown, he suspends himself on wing for the space of two or three seconds, so steadily that his wings become almost invisible ; the glossy golden green of his back, and the fire of his throat, dazzling in the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pàgines
...trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of these, that are full blown, he suspends himself on the wing for the space of two or three seconds so steadily,...that his wings become invisible, or only like a mist ; the glossy golden green of his back, and the fire of his throat, dazzling in the sun, form altogether... | |
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