 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...uses a little inward wailing note when it thinks its young ' in danger from cats or other annoyances. It takes its stand on the top of some stake or post,...returning still to the same stand for many times together. THE PIED FLYCATCHER. THIS bird is about five inches long. It has a black beak, hazel eyes, and white... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...is called, in your Zoology, the flycatcher. There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation; and that...returning still to the same stand for many times together. * The latest time which the swift has been known to remain in this country was till September 15, in... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...is called, in your Zoology, the flycatcher. There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation, and that...returning still to the same stand for many times together 0 . I perceive there are more than one species of the 5 The Motacilla or Sylria Trochilus does not... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 508 pages
...bird (the Spotted Flycatcher, Mulctcapa grisola) which seems to have escaped observation ; and i hat is, it takes its stand on the top of some stake or...the same stand for many times together.' (Nat, Hist. ofSelborne.) Linnaeus, in his last edition of the Systema Natura, places th.e genus Muscícapa, containing... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 344 pages
...tenth Letter to Pennant. " There is," he observes, " one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation, and that...still to the same stand for many times together." From this circumstance it is in some of the rural districts of England known as the " Post-bird." A... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1862 - 456 pages
...called, in your Zoology, the fly-catcher.-f- There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation, and that...returning still to the same stand for many times together. I perceive there are more than one species of the motacilla. which visits us. J Mr. Derham supposes,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...is called, in your Zoology, the flycatcher.* There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation, and that...returning still to the same stand for many times together. 1 Iu f[uotin<r the above remark, under the head of Swift, in the second volume of his "British Zoology,"... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 400 pages
...is called, in your Zoology, the flycatcher. There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird, which seems to have escaped observation ; and that...still to the same stand for many times together.-. * The latest time which the swift has been known to remain in thii country was till September 15, in... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...parts) is called in your zoology the fly-catcher. There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird which seems to have escaped observation, and that...but returning still to the same stand for many times tO- THE SPOTTED FLY-CATCHER (M:iscicafagrisola). gether. I perceive there are more than one species... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1880 - 554 pages
...parts) is called in your zoology the fly-catcher.f There is one circumstance characteristic of this bird which seems to have escaped observation, and that...springs forth on its prey, catching a fly in the air, hardly ever touching the ground, but returning still to the same stand for many times together. r,... | |
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which seems to have escaped observation ; and that is, it takes its stand on the top of some stake or post, from whence it springs forth on its prey, catching a fly in the air, and hardly ever touching the ground, but returning still to the same stand... 
