 | Edmund Selous - 1905 - 382 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner, and in as regular ranks, as a regiment...sitting hens in a third, the clean birds in a fourth, etc., and so strictly do birds in similar condition congregate that, should a bird that is in moulting... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1835 - 440 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner, and in as regular ranks, as a regiment...similar condition congregate, that should a bird that is moulting intrude itself upon those which are clean.it is immediately ejected from among them. The... | |
 | 1834 - 1276 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment...similar condition congregate, that should a bird that is moulting intrude itself among those which are clean, it is immediately ejected from among them.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 566 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment...the young birds being in one situation, the moulting in another, the sitting hens in a third, the clean birds in a fourth, &c, ; and so strictly do birds... | |
 | 1884 - 106 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment...with the greatest order, the young birds being in ouo situation, the molting birds in another, the sitting hens in a third, the clean birds io a fourth,... | |
 | 1884 - 588 pages
...are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment...soldiers, and are classed with the greatest order, the youog birds being in one situation, the molting birds in another, the sitting hene in a third, the... | |
| |
They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment of soldiers ; and are classed with the greatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds in another, the sitting hens in a third, the... 
