The Birds of America, Volumen3J.J. Audubon, 1841 This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839). |
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Términos y frases comunes
abundant Adult Male Amer American Goldfinch arched base Bill short Biog bird Blue Grosbeak Bonap Bowen Philad breast breed brownish-black Bunting bush colour Columbia river Common Crossbill compressed conical Crossbill Drawn from Nature dusky eggs end of tail extent of wings feathers Feet Female Finch Fringilla gap-line Goldfinch grass Grosbeak Head rather large hind toe inches Labrador Length to end LESSER REDPOLL light longitudinal lower mandible margined middle toe moderate length nasal sinus Nature by JJ nearly equal neck short nest Nostrils basal Nutt outer ovate Pine Grosbeak PLATE Plumage soft Printed & Colby Purple Finch quills longest reddish-brown ridge Rose-breasted Grosbeak roundish rump season Shore Lark sides convex sides rounded slender slightly convex soft and blended song Song Sparrow Sparrow species streaked tail-coverts tail-feathers tarsus Thrush tinged tip acute trees twelfths long upper mandible WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL wing from flexure winter Wood Thrush young
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Página 22 - ... me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to involve the heavens and the earth in one mass of fearful murkiness...
Página 46 - The shore-lark breeds on the high and desolate tracts of Labrador, in the vicinity of the sea. The face of the country appears as if formed of one undulated expanse of granite, covered with mosses and lichens, varying in size and colour, some green, others as white as snow, and others again of every tint, and disposed in large patches or tufts. It is on the latter that...
Página 22 - I have been obliged to wait with the patience of a martyr for the return of day, silently counting over the years of my youth, doubting perhaps if ever again I should return to my home and embrace my family ! — how often, as the first glimpses of morning gleamed doubtfully amongst the dusky masses of the forest-trees, has there come upon my ear, thrilling along the sensitive cords which connect that organ with the heart, the delightful music of this harbinger of day ! — and how fervently, on...
Página 22 - ... has there come upon my ear, thrilling along the sensitive cords which connect that organ with the heart, the delightful music of this harbinger of day! — and how fervently, on such occasions, have I blessed the Being who formed the Wood Thrush, and placed it in those solitary forests, as if to console me amidst my privations, to cheer my depressed mind, and to make me feel, as I did, that man never should despair, whatever may be his situation, as he can never be certain that aid and deliverance...
Página 22 - This bird is my greatest favorite of the feathered tribes of our woods. To it I owe much. How often has it revived my drooping spirits, when I have listened to its wild notes in the forest, after passing a restless night in my slender shed, so feebly secured against the violence of the storm as to show me the futility of my best efforts to rekindle my little fire, whose uncertain and vacillating light had gradually died away under the destructive weight of the dense torrents of rain that seemed to...
Página 22 - ... his intentions, he raises his mind toward the Supreme Disposer of events. Seldom, indeed, have I heard the song of this thrush without feeling all that tranquillity of mind to which the secluded situation in which it delights is so favorable. The thickest and darkest woods always appear to please it best.
Página 46 - They are four or five in number, large, greyish, and covered with numerous pale blue and brown spots. The young leave the nest before they are able to fly, and follow their parents over the moss, where they are fed about a week. They run nimbly, emit a soft peep, and squat closely at the first appearance of danger. If observed and pursued, they open their wings to aid them in their escape, and, separating, make off with great celerity. On such occasions it is difficult to secure more than one of...
Página 177 - I received," said his friend, " a male in splendid plumage, but so emaciated, that he seemed little else than a mass of feathers. By cautious feeding, however, he soon regained his flesh, and became so tame as to eat from my hand without the least appearance of fear. To reconcile him gradually to confinement, he was permitted to fly about my bedroom ; and, upon rising in the morning, the first thing I did was to give him a small quantity of seed. But three mornings in succession I happened to lie...
Página 94 - A male bird in full plumage is shot and stuffed in a defensive attitude, and perched among some grass-seed, rice, or other food, on the same platform, as the trap-cage. This is taken to the fields, or near the orangeries, and placed in so open a situation, that it would be difficult for a living bird of any species to fly over it without observing it. The trap is set. A male Painted. Finch passes, perceives it. and dives towards the stuffed bird with all the anger which its little breast can contain....
Página 22 - ... instantly followed by an uproar of crackling, crashing, and deafening sounds, rolling their volumes in tumultuous eddies far and near, as if to silence the very breathings of the unformed thought! How often, after such a night, when far from my dear home, and deprived of the presence of those nearest to my heart, wearied, hungry, drenched, and so lonely and desolate as almost to question myself why I was thus situated; when I have seen the fruits of my...