Series 6: Geologic reports, Volume 16Kentucky Geological Survey, 1925 |
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abundant anal plate animals Audubon B. J. Blincoe Ballard beak belly white Big Bone Lick blacksnake body Bowling Green breast brown C. F. Martin C. K. Morrell C. W. Beckham Campbell caves color County D. J. Healy Description Didlake Distribution Dix River Dodge and W. D. F. dusky eggs Fayette feathers feed feet Female Garman gray habits Harlan head and neck insects Kentucky large numbers latest dep Length Lexington line over eye lizard Male mice Nelson Nelson Co Nest Ohio Ohio River Oologist Permanent resident rare rattlesnake Records reddish region Remarks reptiles River roost rump Sams scutes Season Sept Sexes alike Sexes similar sides snake species specimen spots streaked with black stripes tail black Taylor J. L. Miller throat trees underparts white upperparts usually venomous venomous snakes W. R. Jillson Warbler Western Coal Field Wilson wings and tail winter Woodford yellow young
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Page 191 - It was, as is always the case, in a portion of the forest where the trees were of great magnitude, and there was little underwood. I rode through it upwards of forty miles, and, crossing it in different parts, found its average breadth to be rather more than three miles. My first view of it...
Page 192 - The pigeons, arriving by thousands, alighted everywhere, one above another, until solid masses, as large as hogsheads, were formed on the branches all round. Here and there the perches gave way under the weight with a crash, and falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the birds beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every stick was loaded.
Page 195 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Page 195 - ... to fell them in such a manner, that, in their descent, they might bring down several others ; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.
Page 195 - It was dangerous to walk under these flying and fluttering millions, from the frequent fall of large branches, broken down by the weight of the multitudes above, and which, in their descent, often destroyed numbers of the birds themselves ; while the clothes of those engaged in traversing the woods were completely covered with the excrements of the pigeons.
Page 34 - The amazing herds of Buffaloes which resort thither by their size and number, fill the traveller with amazement and terror, especially when he beholds the prodigious roads they have made from all quarters, as if leading to some populous city ; the vast space of land around these springs desolated as If by a ravaging enemy, and hills reduced to plains ; for the land near those springs are chiefly hilly.
Page 192 - Everything proved to me that the number of birds resorting to this part of the forest must be immense beyond conception. As the period of their arrival approached, their foes anxiously prepared to receive them. Some were furnished with iron pots containing sulphur, others with torches of pine knots, many with poles, and the rest with guns. The sun was lost to our view, yet not a pigeon had arrived.
Page 36 - In size, the average, full grown cougar will perhaps measure seven feet in length from the nose to the tip of the tail, certainly not more, and large specimens will weigh from a hundred and fifty to a hundred and seventy-five pounds.
Page 192 - I arrived there nearly two hours before sunset. Few pigeons were then to be seen, but a great number of persons, with horses and wagons, guns and ammunition, had already established encampments on the borders.
Page 195 - ... through the woods presented a perpetual tumult of crowding and fluttering multitudes of pigeons, their wings roaring like thunder, mingled with the frequent crash of falling timber: for now the axemen were at work, cutting down those trees that seemed to be most crowded with...