 | 1821 - 444 pages
...naturalist, that, to be a complete ornithologist, one should be able to distintinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape; on the...in the bush as well as in the hand. For though it cannot be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is .somewhat,... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...as any other district in the island of Great Britain. A good ornithologist, says the Hev. G. White, should be able to distinguish birds in the air as...the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand, b'or, though it must not be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...PLIN. Hist. Nat. lib. x. cap. 38. A GOOD ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the...wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand. For, thoogh it must not be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 pages
...as any other district in the island of Great Britain. A good ornithologist, says the Rev. G. White, should be able to distinguish birds in the air as...the hand. For, though it must not be said that every tpeciei of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is somewhat in most gi-nrra. at least,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 pages
...38. DEAR SIR, — A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as their colours and shape, on the ground as well as...somewhat in most genera at least that at first sight discriminate* them, and enables a judicious observer to pronounce upon them with some certainty. Put... | |
 | 1840 - 516 pages
...Gilbert White says that " a good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air (manners) as well as by their colours and shape, on the ground,...the wing, and in the bush, as well as in the hand." This facility can only be acquired by practice in the fields and woodlands; and we recommend to our... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 pages
...ground and in the air. DEAR SIB, — A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the...that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to THE KITE. (Falco MUmis.) itself, yet there is somewhat in most genera at least that at first sight... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...ground and in the air. DEAB SIB, — A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the...that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to THK KITE. (Fnhn Milvus.) itself, yet there is somewhat in most genera at least that at first sight... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1861 - 528 pages
...ground and in the air. BEAK SIR, — A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the' ground as well as on tlie wing, and in the bush as "well as in the hand. For, though it must not be said that every specios... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1861 - 532 pages
...ground and in the air. DEAB, SIE, — A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the ground as well as ou the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand. For, though it must not be said that every species... | |
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A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air, as well as by their colours and shape, on the ground as well as on the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand. 
