 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
 | 1848 - 792 pàgines
...When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blow n, the bird poises himself on the wing for 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 fiery red of his throat, dazzling in the sun, form a... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpetflower. 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.... | |
 | Stephen J. Meany - 1849 - 416 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of those 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.... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1850 - 410 pàgines
...among the blossoms of the trumpet-flower. When arrived before a thicket of those 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.... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 pàgines
...extremely fond of tubular flowers. When arrived before a thicket of trumpet-flowers 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... | |
 | Joseph Harrison - 272 pàgines
...pleasure to observe the manœuvres among the blossoms of a trumpet flower. When arrived before thickets of these that are in full bloom he poises or suspends...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist." Bullock observes, "They remain suspended in the air, and the humming noise, from whence their name... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 652 pàgines
..."When arrived before a thicket of these that are full blown, he poises, or suspends himself ou the wing, for the space of two or three seconds, so steadily...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist, and yet, can plainly distinguish the pupil of his eye looking round with great quickness and circumspection;... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pàgines
...off to the object. " I have often stopped," says Wilson, " with pleasure, to observe their manœuvres among the blossoms of a trumpetflower. When arrived...his wings become invisible, or only like a mist." They are also possessed of boldness and familiarity. Wilson has seen them attack and teoie the king-bird... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1855 - 242 pàgines
...appears a mere loiterer to him. When arrived before a thicket of trumpet-flowers that are full blown, he poises or suspends himself on wing for the space of two or three seconds, and so steadily that his wings become invisible or only like a mist, and you can plainly distinguish... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1856 - 108 pàgines
...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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