 | Botany - 1853 - 562 pages
...about half-grown. From the first it fed itself without hesitation, scratching and turning up the earth like an old bird. Two more afterwards emerged in the same state. According to Mr. Motley, the sexes are alike, except that the naked skin about the head is redder in... | |
 | 1855 - 518 pages
...but that from neglecting to place them in a proper («. «. probably an upright) position, the chiots could not get up through the sand, and had all perished....though now so abundant, will ere long become scarce. The nests of the Egrets, called Padi birds, from their frequenting the rice-fields, are so difficult... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...first dug out, some of the eggs had lost much of their outer colour, which appeared to have sealed off, leaving only a white chalky shell. On a former...though now so abundant, will ere long become scarce. The nests of the Egrets, called Padi birds, from their frequenting the rice-fields, are so difficult... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1855 - 520 pages
...weeks one of the chicks was hatched ; a Malay who saw it emerge, said, that it just shook off the saud and ran away so fast that it was with difficulty caught...Their eggs are held in such high estimation as food ooth by natives and Europeans, that one cannot but fear that these interesting birds, though now so... | |
 | Biology - 1856 - 510 pages
...and ran away so fast that it was with difficulty caught ; it then appeared to be nearly half grown, and from the first fed itself without hesitation,...though now so abundant, will ere long become scarce." Many other extracts we might give of equal interest, but, advising our readers to select for themselves,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1856 - 444 pages
...box of sand, and a month or two afterwards it was discovered that they were all hatched, but thai, from neglecting to place them in a proper (ie probably...food, both by natives and Europeans, that one cannot hut fear that these interesting birds, though now so abundant, will ere long become scarce. — Contributions... | |
 | 1851 - 324 pages
...about half-grown. From the first it fed itself without hesitation, scratching and turning up the earth like an old bird. Two more afterwards emerged in the same state. According to Mr. Motley, the sexes are alike, except that the naked skin about the head is redder in... | |
 | Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1851 - 370 pages
...about half-grown. From the first it fed itself without hesitation, scratching and turning up the earth like an old bird. Two more afterwards emerged in the same state. According to Mr. Motley, the sexes are alike, except that the naked skin about the head is redder in... | |
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... off, leaving only a white chalky shell. On a former occasion some eggs were brought by the natives, and were buried in a box of sand and exposed to the weather : at the end of about three weeks one of the chicks was hatched ; a Malay who saw it emerge,... 