 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1869 - 968 páginas
...together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...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 páginas
...leaves, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...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 páginas
...together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...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... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1873 - 1038 páginas
...together, raise up their wings stretch up their necks and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles, they fly...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. In the Aru islands there occur the great wingless Casuary brush turkeys, the King-hunters " Dacelo... | |
 | George St. Clair - 1873 - 296 páginas
...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 - 1873 - 1030 páginas
...but . scattered leaves giving a clear space for the birds to play and exhibit their plumes. The bird is nearly as large as a crow and is of a rich coffee brown colour. The head and neck is of a pure straw yellow above and rich metallic green beneath,... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 páginas
...the old teakettles, "if it is not made out of water?" XXIII.— THE BIRD OF PARADISE. 1. This bird is nearly as large as a crow, and is of a rich, coffee-brown color. The head and neck are of a pure straw-yellow above, and rich metallic-green beneath. The long plumy tufts of golden orange... | |
 | 1887 - 604 páginas
...and expand their exquisite long plumes till they form two magnificent golden fans, which are kept in continual vibration. Between whiles they fly across...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. In the position above mentioned the whole bird is overshadowed by his plumage, the crouching body,... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1210 páginas
...together, raise up their wings, stretch up their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles, they fly...waving plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. — Hardwicke and Gray, III. Ind. Zoology ; FD Bennett, Wanderings; Wallace, Malay Archip. ii. 141-220;... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1885 - 1302 páginas
...together, raise up their wings, stretch out their necks, and elevate their exquisite plumes, keeping them in a continual vibration. Between whiles they fly...excitement, so that the whole tree is filled with waviog plumes in every variety of attitude and motion. The colouring of birds is often imitative, in... | |
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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... 
