 | English literature - 1795 - 718 pages
...young, had not afFeftion foggefted an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the neft all the hotter hours, while, with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they fcrcrned off the heat from their fuffcring offspring. A firther inflance 1 once law of notable faga«itv... | |
 | 716 pages
...young, had not affeftion fuggeflcd an expedient, and prompted the parent-birds to hover over the neft all the hotter hours, while. with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they fcrcened off the heat for their fuffering offfPr*S A farther inftance I onco faw of notable fagacity... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent Birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while, with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. The female lays four or five eggs : the nest... | |
 | William Granger - Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 688 pages
...young, had not affe&ion fuggefted an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the neft all the hotter hours, while •with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they fcresned off the heat from their fuffering offspring. A farther inftance I once faw -of notable fagacity... | |
 | Arminianism - 1816 - 1004 pages
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A farther instance I once saw of noble sagacity... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent-birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A farther instance I once saw of notable sagacity... | |
 | 1828 - 588 pages
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while with wings expanded and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. A further instance I once saw of notable sagacity... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pages
...had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest during all the hotter hours; while with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. • DESCRIPTION. The length of this species is... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest during all the hotter hours ; while, with wings expanded and mouths gaping for breath, thev screened their suffering offspring from the heat. 61 May we not, with such a fact before us, so... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover over the nest all the hotter hours, while, with wings expanded, and mouths gaping for breath, they screened off the heat from their suffering offspring. " A farther instance I once saw of notable sagacity... | |
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But a hot sunny season coming on before the brood was half fledged, the reflection of the wall became insupportable, and must inevitably have destroyed the tender young, had not affection suggested an expedient, and prompted the parent birds to hover... 
