 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
 | 1876 - 588 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 - 1839 - 408 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... | |
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