 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with his spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female. To* wards very young ladies — pouts — the old gobbler alters his mode of procedure. He struts less... | |
 | 1831 - 1040 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with his spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female. To» wards very young ladies — pouts — the old gobbler alters his mode of procedure. He struts... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 422 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female*." When the male and female turkey meet, the ceremonies of strutting and opening the wings are carried... | |
 | John James Audubon - 1832 - 564 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female. When the male has discovered and made up to the female (whether such a combat has previously taken... | |
 | Elisha Jarrett Lewis - 1855 - 508 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female." The period of sexual intercourse continues for several weeks, when the female, towards the middle of April,... | |
 | Elisha Jarrett Lewis - 1857 - 530 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female." The period of sexual intercourse continues for several weeks, when the female, towards the middle of April,... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1865 - 768 pages
...still holding last, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a lew minutos brings him to the ground. The moment he is dead, the conqueror treads...themselves for the greater part of the day in order to save their eggs, which he would destroy whenever he obtained the opportunity. The nest, a very simple... | |
 | Lewis Wright - 1885 - 698 pages
...lives, the weaker falling under the blows inflicted upon the head by the stronger. The moment a rival is dead the conqueror treads him under foot, but what...motions which he employs in caressing the female. " About the middle of April, when the season is dry, the hens begin to look out for a place to deposit... | |
 | Arthur Cleveland Bent - 1932 - 618 pages
...still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings him to the ground. The moment he Is dead, the conqueror treads...motions which he employs in caressing the female. When the male has discovered and made up to the female (whether such a combat has previously taken... | |
 | Gladwyn Kingsley Noble - 1925 - 420 pages
...ago Audubon described the fierce conflicts between male Wild Turkeys. When one bird has been killed " the conqueror treads him under foot, but, what is...motions which he employs in caressing the female." In the Ruffed Grouse, where the courtship ceremonies closely approach in their simplicity those of... | |
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... ruffled, and their heads covered with blood. If, as they thus struggle, and gasp for breath, one of them should lose his hold, his chance is over, for the other, still holding fast, hits him violently with spurs and wings, and in a few minutes brings... 
