 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...cream-colour and of a very large size, three of them weighing nearly as much as a full-grown bird. Accordmg to the account given by the Malays, each bird lays...earth, and sticks ; it was close to the beach, just withm the jungle, and scarcely above high-water mark, and appeared to have been used for many years.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...an opportunity of inspecting a vеry large and perfect nest, or breeding-hill, and found it to Ъе about twenty feet in diameter, and composed of sand,...scarcely above high-water mark, and appeared to have been need for many years. The boatmen seemed to have no clue to .what part of the hillock contained eggs,... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...eighteen inches. Since receiving this account, however, we have had an opportunity of inspecting a теrу large and perfect nest, or breeding-hill, and found...twenty feet in diameter, and composed of sand, earth, aud sticks ; it was close to the beach, just within the jungle, and scarcely above high-water mark,... | |
 | Biology - 1856 - 510 pages
...however, we have had an opportunity of inspecting a very large and perfect nest, or breeding hill, and found it to be about twenty feet in diameter,...beach, just within the jungle, and scarcely above high- water mark, and appeared to have been used for many years. The boatmen seemed to have no cine... | |
 | English periodicals - 1856 - 444 pages
...account, however, we have had an opportunity of inspecting a very large and perfect nest or breeding hill, and found it to be about twenty feet in diameter,...used for many years. The boatmen seemed to have no clew to what part of the hillock contained eggs, but said that they were never without some when frequented... | |
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... breeding, and their nests are merely large heaps of shells and rubbish, deposited over the sandy soil, in which the eggs are buried to the depth of about eighteen inches. Since receiving this account, however, we have had an opportunity of inspecting... 