 | James Covel - 1853 - 560 pages
...eye downward, and continue to fly in that posture. As soon as they perceive a fish sufficiently near the surface, they dart down upon it with the swiftness...and store it up in their pouch. They then rise again and fish as before. In feeding its young, the pelican squeezes the food deposited in its bag into their... | |
 | 1853 - 402 pages
...eye downward, and continue to fly in that posture. As soon as they perceive a fish sufficiently near the ' surface, they dart down upon it with the swiftness...certainty, and store it up in their pouch." They then rise and watch for fish as before. When their bag is full, they fly to land, and leisurely devour the fruits... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...eye downwards, and continue to fly in that posture. As soon as they perceive a iish sufficiently near the surface, they dart down upon it with the swiftness...pouch. They then rise again, though not without great labour, and continue hovuring and fishing, with their head on one side as before. This work they continue... | |
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... in fixed repose. When they have raised themselves about thirty or forty feet above the surface of the sea, they turn their head with one eye downwards, and continue to fly in that posture. As soon as they perceive a fish sufficiently near... 
