The Birds of the BibleJazzybee Verlag, 2017 M02 6 - 308 páginas Gene Stratton-Porter, the Indiana novelist and bird lover, offers the fruits of several years' loving labor in "Birds of the Bible”, a handsome volume. The riches of bird lore that Mrs. Porter has unearthed will surprise anyone who opens the book. "Birds of the Bible " is designed for all lovers of birds in general, and lovers of Bible birds and Bible poetry in particular. It contains every reference made to birds in the Bible: describes the location, and explains the characteristics of the bird. In this book, the author, one of the most successful writers of her days, both as a naturalist and a novelist, has made her greatest effort to do something worth while for the world, having given three years to the preparation of the text. |
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... young larks, doves, or quails were taken from the nest, raised by hand, and made very tame. These were then hidden in cages of wands, and when their notes had attracted large numbers of their kind, they were skillfully dropped by arrows ...
... young females before they left the nest. If any Bible writer ever produced any natural history similar to this, which is just a few quotations cited at random, I have failed to find it. Pliny was the next nature writer whose work is ...
... , but a time from which we came, when we face this evidence, that however old Egypt may be, even in the time of Moses she was young compared with China and India, who previous to those days were possessed – THE PLACE.
... young, but never a nest or brooding mother could they find, search as they might. For these birds had followed the seacoast and had come down from Greece to perplex these people also. Their Grecian name, alceon, as we translate halcyon ...
... young came forth safely in large broods. The bay tree mentioned by David, who said, "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree," was their most profusely growing shrub along lakes and rivers, but ...