 | 1887 - 606 pàgines
...tells us, a dozen or twenty full-plumaged birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. As soon, then, as the male birds in gorgeous nuptial attire have fixed on a tree on which to exhibit,... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pàgines
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. (See Frontispiece.) The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 968 pàgines
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color. The head and neck... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 pàgines
...of tree with spreading branches, and large but scattered leaves, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. Mr. W. was a most enthusiastic and indefatigable collector of animal specimens, and brought home 310... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1870 - 528 pàgines
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male-birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. The long plumes are raised up and expanded till they form two magnificent golden fans, striped with... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 pàgines
...natives call it. They raise their wings, stretch out their necks, elevate their exquisite plumes, and between whiles they fly across from branch to branch...waving plumes, in every variety of attitude and motion. These birds, when kept in confinement in the Malay Archipelago, are said to take much care in keeping... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1210 pàgines
...the base. When seen in this attitude it really deserves its name ; a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings,...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. — Hardwicke and Gray, III. Ind. Zoology ; FD Bennett, Wanderings; Wallace, Malay Archip. ii. 141-220;... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1885 - 686 pàgines
...together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping tiem in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. (See Frontispiece.) The bird itself is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich coffee-brown color.... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pàgines
...tells us, a dozen or twenty full-plumaged birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. As soon, then, as the male birds in gorgeous nuptial attire have fixed on a tree on which to exhibit,... | |
 | Leonard C. Smithers - 1894 - 450 pàgines
...trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion." No. 2i6bc appears to be nearly the same as No. 42. No. 225 is a variant of No. I35q. WEIL'S TRANSLATION.... | |
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On one of these trees a dozen or twenty full-plumaged male birds assemble together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly across from branch to... 
