 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pages
...new down, which she plucks from her body: when this falls short, or she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. When the young ones leave the nest, which is about... | |
 | 1816 - 386 pages
...lays afresh, covering her eggs with new down plucked from her breast : this being taken away, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is left till the young are hatched. One female, during the whole time of laying, generally gives half... | |
 | J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...down, which she also plucks from her body : when this is scarce, or she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. When the young ones leave the nest, which is about... | |
 | 1824 - 504 pages
...she begins to laj afresh, covering the eggs with new down; and when she can afford no more, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which wliitf. When the young ones leave the nest, it is once more plundered. The best down and most eggs... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...down, which she also plucks from her body ; when this is scarce, or she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. "When the young ones leave the nest, which is about... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...covers her eggs with new down, which she plucks from her body. When she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. When the young-ones leave the nest, which is about... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...she begins to lay afresh, covering the eggs with new down ; and when she can afford no more, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which i» whits. When the young ones leave the nest, it is one* more plundered- The beet down and most eggs... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...new down, which she also plucks from her body; when this is scarce, or she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. When the young ones leave the nest, which is about... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 618 pages
...lays afresh, covering her eggs with new down plucked from her breast ; this being taken away, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, •which is left till the young are hatched. One female, during the whole time of laying, generally gives half... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...down, which she also plucks from her body ; when this is scarce, or she bos no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which ie white, and easily distinguished from that of (he female. When .the young ones leave the nest, which... | |
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... she has no more left, the male comes to her assistance, and covers the eggs with his down, which is white, and easily distinguished from that of the female. 
