 | Henry Seebohm - 1880 - 362 pages
...lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting and was caught by the lighthouse man. I should be at'raid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds of thousands...lighthouse man succeeded in securing amounted to nearly 300. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse was equally interesting; in every direction birds... | |
 | 1881 - 584 pages
...occasionally one fluttered against the glass like a moth against a lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting, and was caught by the lighthouse man. I should be...lighthouse man succeeded in securing amounted to nearly 300. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse was equally interesting ; in every direction birds... | |
 | Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club - 1884 - 426 pages
...warbling cry of larks ; now and then a thrush was heard, and once a heron screamed as it passed by. I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...thousands that must have passed in a couple of hours." • ' Siberia,' pp. 257-8. V. ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. By the PRESIDENT, GEORGE ROOPEB, FZS Delivered at... | |
 | 1895 - 544 pages
...like a moth against a lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting, and was caught by the lighthouseman. I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...in a couple of hours, but the stray birds which the lighthouse-man succeeded in securing amounted to nearly 300." When we consider, adds Mr. Seebohm, that... | |
 | Henry Seebohm - 1901 - 542 pages
...occasionally one fluttered against the glass like a moth against a lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting and was caught by the lighthouse man. I should be...lighthouse man succeeded in securing amounted to nearly 300. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse was equally interesting ; in every direction birds... | |
 | Frederic William Westaway - 1912 - 474 pages
...moment as if dazzled by the light, and then gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. ... I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...have passed in a couple of hours; but the stray birds that the lighthouse man succeeded in capturing amounted to nearly 300." He also tells us that 15,000... | |
 | George Malcolm Thomson - 1922 - 640 pages
...like a moth against a lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting and was caught by the lighthouse men. I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...of hours; but the stray birds which the lighthouse men succeeded in securing amounted to nearly three hundred. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse... | |
 | George Malcolm Thomson (M.L.C., F.L.S., F.N.Z.Inst.) - 1922 - 626 pages
...like a moth against a lamp, tried to perch on the wire netting and was caught by the lighthouse men. I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...of hours; but the stray birds which the lighthouse men succeeded in securing amounted to nearly three hundred. The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1901 - 726 pages
...moment as if dazzled by the light, and then gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. . . I should be afraid to hazard a guess as to the hundreds...thousands that must have passed in a couple of hours .... The scene from the balcony of the lighthouse was equally interesting ; in every direction birds... | |
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... moment as if dazzled by the light, and then gradually vanished with the rest in the western gloom. Occasionally a bird wheeled round the lighthouse and then passed on, and occasionally one fluttered against the glass like a moth against a lamp, tried... 