 | Martin Martin - Saint Kilda (Scotland) - 1749 - 96 pages
...Galr-fowl and Fulmar, F which (34) which lay but once) ; if the firft or fecond Egg be taken away, every Fowl lays but one other Egg that Year, except...that when the April Moon goes far in May, the Fowls arc ten or twelve Days later in laying their Eggs, than ordinarily they ufe to be. The Inhabitants... | |
 | Donald Monro - 1774 - 240 pages
...except the Gair-fowl and Fulmar, which lay but •once ; if the firft or fecond egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...Sea-Malls, and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether die firft and fecond eggs be taken ay, or BO. The inhabitants obferve, that when the April moon goes... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...that year, except the fea-malls, and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the firft and fécond eggs be taken away or no. The inhabitants obferve,...fay, that of thefe fowls there firft come over fome fpies, or harbingers, efpecially of the Solan geefe, towering about the iflands where their nefts are,... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...times except the Gair-fowland Fulmar, which lay but once; if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second eggs be taken away, or no. The inhabitants observe, that when the April moon goes... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 412 pages
...times except the Gair-fowl and Fulmar, which lay but once ; if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second eggs be taken away, or no. The inhabitants observe, that when the April moon goes... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...times except the Gair-fowl and Fulmar, which lay but once; if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second eggs be taken away, or no. The inhabitants observe, that when the April moon goes... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1834 - 698 pages
...if later, the contrary is observed. The inhabitants observe, that, when the April moon goes far into May, the fowls are ten or twelve days later in laying their eggs than they usually are. Every fowl lays an egg three different times, except the gair fowl (great auk) and... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...times, except the gairfowl and fulmar, which lay but once. If the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second be taken away ov no. " The inhabitants observe, that when the April moon goes far... | |
 | George Seton - 1878 - 386 pages
...times (except the gairfowl and fulmar, which lay but once); if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except...and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether the first and second eggs be taken away or no." In alluding to the instinct and sagacity of the various... | |
 | Timothy Harley - History - 1885 - 326 pages
...its malefic rays. As with the lifeless, so with the living. " The inhabitants of St. Kilda observe that when the April moon goes far in May, the fowls...days later in laying their eggs than ordinarily they use to be." s-5 The influence of the moon upon vegetation is an opinion hoary with age. In the Zend-Avesta... | |
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Every fowl lays an egg three different times except the Gair-fowl and Fulmar, which lay but once ; if the first or second egg be taken away, every fowl lays but one other egg that year, except the seamalls, and they ordinarily lay the third egg, whether... 
