| John George Wood - 1862 - 806 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed by the weight of its... | |
| John George Wood - Vertebrates - 1831 - 802 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed by the weight of its... | |
| 1868 - 506 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and an unhatched eggThis contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several rimes nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
| 1868 - 398 pages
...size turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable ; the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its burden... | |
| William Bingley - Zoology - 1871 - 1056 pages
...out the other, together with the young Hedge-Sparrow, and the unhatched egg. The contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times, nearly to the top of th'e nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
| John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
...out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down oppressed by the weight of its burthen... | |
| William Yarrell - Birds - 1882 - 566 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young Hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
| George John Romanes - Animal behavior - 1882 - 550 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again oppressed with the weight of... | |
| William H. Wintringham - Birds in literature - 1892 - 446 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed with the weight of... | |
| Alfred Henry Miles - Animal behavior - 1895 - 462 pages
...superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of the burthen... | |
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