The birds of the west of Scotland, including the Outer HebridesThomas Murray & son., 1871 |
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... Ailsa Craig , formerly a breeding station , is now only visited by a passing vagrant ; and in Islay two well - known eyries - one at the Mull of Oe , the other at Bolsa - have for some years been entirely deserted , although stray birds ...
... Ailsa Craig , formerly a breeding station , is now only visited by a passing vagrant ; and in Islay two well - known eyries - one at the Mull of Oe , the other at Bolsa - have for some years been entirely deserted , although stray birds ...
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... Ailsa Craig , the Shiant Isles , and Barra on the west . The Haskeir Rocks and St Kilda are also instances of their partiality for the companionship of seabirds . In these marine haunts the Falcons prey almost exclusively on birds that ...
... Ailsa Craig , the Shiant Isles , and Barra on the west . The Haskeir Rocks and St Kilda are also instances of their partiality for the companionship of seabirds . In these marine haunts the Falcons prey almost exclusively on birds that ...
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... Ailsa Craig , whence a comparatively short flight would take it to one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys in Scotland , it prefers the society of puffins and razorbills , and makes its habitation among broken masses of rock ...
... Ailsa Craig , whence a comparatively short flight would take it to one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys in Scotland , it prefers the society of puffins and razorbills , and makes its habitation among broken masses of rock ...
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... Ailsa Craig ; one of these had their nest in a turret hole of the old castle ruins , nearly half way towards the W. Sinclair , del . Frank Bott , Lith . 78 BIRDS OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND .
... Ailsa Craig ; one of these had their nest in a turret hole of the old castle ruins , nearly half way towards the W. Sinclair , del . Frank Bott , Lith . 78 BIRDS OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND .
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... Ailsa Craig even - an isolated refuge , without hedge - rows or any attractive brushwood which make the home of the species unseen in the not far distant valleys of Ayrshire- it hops briskly among the broken boulders , and trills its ...
... Ailsa Craig even - an isolated refuge , without hedge - rows or any attractive brushwood which make the home of the species unseen in the not far distant valleys of Ayrshire- it hops briskly among the broken boulders , and trills its ...
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Strona 122 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground ! Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The world should listen then — as I am listening now.
Strona 76 - With joy — and oft an unintruding guest, I watched her secret toils from day to day How true she warped the moss to form her nest, And modelled it within with wood and clay. And by and by, like heath-bells gilt with dew, There lay her shining eggs as bright as flowers, Ink-spotted over, shells of green and blue; And there I witnessed, in the summer hours, A brood of nature's minstrels chirp and fly, Glad as the sunshine and the laughing sky.
Strona 53 - A cloud lay cradled near the setting sun, A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow : Long had I watched the glory moving on O'er the still radiance of the Lake below. Tranquil its spirit seemed, and floated slow .' Even in its very motion there was rest : While every breath of eve that chanced to blow, Wafted the traveller to the beauteous West.
Strona 76 - Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush, That overhung a molehill large and round, I heard from morn to morn a merry thrush Sing hymns of rapture, while I drank the sound With...
Strona 453 - Lycid lies. For, so to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise; Ay me ! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are hurled; Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world...
Strona 272 - In an upright position, it measures, when fully grown, about three feet six inches to the top of the head ; and its length, from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, is about three feet.
Strona 456 - Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant...
Strona 374 - ... a bright light blue; primaries dusky brown; secondaries black; speculum or beauty spot rich green ; tertials, edged with black or light blue, and streaked down their middle with white; the tail, which is pointed, extends two inches beyond the wings; legs and feet yellow, the latter very small; the two crescents of white before the eyes meet OH the throat.
Strona 53 - O'er the still radiance of the lake below : Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ; Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous West — Emblem...
Strona 354 - It is highly probable that they extend their migrations under the very pole itself, amid the silent desolation of unknown countries, shut out ever since creation from the prying eye of man by everlasting and insuperable barriers of ice.