 | Samuel Maunder - Animals - 1848 - 924 pages
...is not half the size of the bee« buzzing about the \ same sweets. Sometime* they are teen cha-ing each other In sport with a rapidity of flight and Intricacy of path the eye i* puzzled to follow. Again circling round and round, they rise high In mid air, then dart off like... | |
 | Agriculture - 1858 - 588 pages
...size of the bees buzzing about the same sweets. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in «port, with a rapidity of flight, and intricacy of path,...Again circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1858 - 168 pages
...large as that of the bee buzzing about the same sweets. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other with a rapidity of flight and intricacy of path the...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb they smooth their plumes,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...bird, to the tiny Hermit, whose body is not half the size of the bees buzzing about the same sweets. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in sport...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth... | |
 | UNCLE MERRY - 1860 - 224 pages
...with such a rapidity of flight, and with such a winding path, that the eye is puzzled to follow them. Again, circling round and round, they rise high in...mid air, then dart off, like light, to some distant object. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth their plumes, and seem to delight in their dazzling... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1872 - 758 pages
...bird, to the tiny llermit, whose body is not half the size of the bees buzzing about the same sweets. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in sport...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart oft' like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - Readers (Elementary) - 1872 - 254 pages
...large as that of the bee buzzing about the same sweets. 5. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other with a rapidity of flight and intricacy of path the...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off to some distant attraction. 6. Perched upon a little limb they smooth their... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams, Hector Giacomelli - Birds - 1878 - 472 pages
...sparrow to the tiny hermit, whose body is not half the size of an ordinary bee. " Sometimes they may be seen chasing each other in sport with a rapidity of...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 234 pages
...the tiny hermit, whose body is not half as big as that of the bee which plunders the same flower. " Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in sport...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb, they smooth... | |
 | 1876 - 588 pages
...bird, to the tiny Hermit, whose body is not half the size of the bees buzzing about the same sweets. Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in sport...Again, circling round and round, they rise high in midair, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched upon a little limb they smooth... | |
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Sometimes they are seen chasing each other in sport with a rapidity of flight and intricacy of path the eye is puzzled to follow. Again, circling round and round, they rise high in mid-air, then dart off like light to some distant attraction. Perched... 