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Example sentences for "small bird"

  • There is also a small bird called a chipper somewhat resembling the former which comes in the spring and feeds upon the first buddings of birches and other early trees.

  • Auis Trogloditica or Chock a small bird mixed of black and white and breeding in cony borrouges whereof the warrens are full from April to September, at which time they leaue the country.

  • A small bird of prey calld a birdcatcher about the bignesse of a Thrush and linnet coloured with a longish white bill and sharpe of a very feirce and wild nature though kept in a cage and fed with flesh.

  • For this purpose some men would go out in the morning and kill a small bird of the swamps called kokata and pluck up some reeds of a certain sort (wiwi).

  • The red feathers, plucked from a small bird which is found in many of the islands, thus became an ordinary medium for communicating and extending supernatural powers, not only in the Society Islands, but throughout Polynesia.

  • If an insect or small bird chanced to fly through one of the loops, the priest would allege that the man's soul was caught in the mesh, and that there was no hope for it but that the wretch must die.

  • It is rather a small bird, being barely ten inches in length, and having no "collar" on the neck, like the two preceding species.

  • Without the addition of some epithet, it was generally used to signify any kind of small bird, though it is occasionally employed to signify even so large a creature as an eagle, provided that the bird had been mentioned beforehand.

  • We will first undertake the work of skinning a small bird--a robin, thrush, or blackbird, whichever you happen to have.

  • For skinning a small bird, the only instrument imperatively necessary is a good-sized scalpel or a sharp penknife.

  • Ornithological Regions of the body of a Small Bird 19 14.

  • In hot weather no small bird, and very few other things, are fit to be given to a hawk if they have been dead more than twenty-four hours.

  • A wild merlin will often eat the whole of a small bird between 8 and 9 a.

  • Then hold in the gloved fist, between the outer part of the thumb and the end of the forefinger, a very tender piece of meat or wing of a small bird.

  • To clean forearm in a small bird, use the thumb nail to shove skin forward toward wrist, on front of wing, without breaking union of large, secondary flight feathers with wing bone.

  • When pelvis is uncovered, if a small bird, take rump between two forefingers and thumb of left hand; if a large bird, hang up on a wire hook and cord, and skin down to shoulders.

  • In a small bird in which the forearm was skinned out from the inside, slip in a film of cotton or tow to replace flesh of same.

  • It is true she takes the bat, who has his own insect-destroying work to do; and when she has the chance she will cause havoc in the nest of a small bird.

  • Though the Sparrow-hawk, taken altogether, is a small bird, yet he is a great thief, as may be gathered from his piercing eye.

  • Haue you an Apiaster a small bird calld a Beebird.

  • Auis Trogloditica[43] or Chock a small bird mixed of black & white & breeding in cony borrouges whereof the warrens are full from April to September.

  • The sand beaches of California are favorite feeding grounds, where I have seen it associated with the long-billed curlew.

  • They soared down handsomely, showing the cinnamon, and as they alighted held their wings straight over their backs for a moment, the black shoulder straps showing in strong contrast to the warm cinnamon.

  • THIS is a small bird, measuring no more than twelve inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail.

  • Mr. Edwards once surprised a Lizard in the act of fighting with a small bird, as she sat on her nest in a vine against a wall, with newly-hatched young.

  • Let us assume that we have a dry skin each of a small bird and a furred animal which has been properly made up sometime in the past and which it is necessary to mount.

  • If a small bird darts by with a feather or straw in its bill I mark its flight, and it will be a lucky bird if I do not find its nest in the end.

  • And it was you I saw in the wood one day, lying on the ground playing with a small bird?

  • Looking up at this point to confirm the small, small bird in every particular he has mentioned, I find he has ceased to twitter, and has put his head under his wing.


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