Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation, Breeding, Rearing, and General ManagementThe author, 1850 - 191 pages |
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Page 4 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Page 59 - ... with their young, then nearly twothirds grown, or in company with other females, and their families, form troops sometimes consisting of seventy or eighty individuals, all of whom are intent on avoiding the old males, who, whenever opportunity offers, attack and destroy the young by repeated blows on the skull. All parties, however, travel in the same direction, and on foot, unless they are compelled to seek their individual safety by flying from the hunter's dog, or their march is impeded by...
Page 69 - How rich the peacock ! what bright glories run From plume to plume, and vary in the Sun ! He proudly spreads them to the golden ray, Gives all his colours, and adorns the day ; VOL. VII. O With conscious state the spacious round displays, And slowly moves amid the waving blaze.
Page 59 - ... at the same moment ejecting a puff of air from the lungs. Whilst thus occupied, they occasionally halt to look out for the female, and then resume their strutting and puffing, moving with as much rapidity as the nature of their gait will admit. During this ceremonious approach the males often encounter each other, and desperate battles ensue, when the conflict is only terminated by the flight or death of the vanquished.
Page 58 - Indian and buffalo, they have been compelled to yield to the destructive ingenuity of the white settlers, often wantonly exercised, and seek refuge in the remotest parts of the interior. Although they relinquish their native soil with slow and reluctant steps, yet such is the rapidity with which settlements are extended and condensed over the surface of this country, that we may ^anticipate a day, at no distant period, when the hunter will seek the wild turkey in vain.
Page 177 - The female is somewhat less than the male, and weighs three pounds and three quarters ; the crown is blackish brown ; cheeks and throat of a pale drab; neck, dull brown ; breast, as far as the black extends on the male, dull brown, skirted in places with pale drab; back, dusky white, crossed with fine waving lines; belly, of the same dull white, pencilled like the back; wings, feet, and bill, as in the male; tail-coverts, dusky; vent, white; waved with brown.
Page 131 - Amusive birds! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Page 142 - ... is generally returned by some of the party. Their course is in a straight line, with the exception of the undulations of their flight.
Page 73 - of a beautiful deep purple in the centre, which is about the size of a shilling ; this is surrounded by a band of green, becoming narrow behind, but widening in front, and filling up a kind of notch that occurs in the blue ; then comes a broad brownish band ; and lastly a narrow black ring, edged with chestnut, all beautifully metallic, or rather presenting the hues of various precious stones, when viewed in certain lights.
Page 58 - Louisiana, Tennessee, and Alabama ; the unsettled portions of the states of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois ; the vast expanse of territory northwest of these states, on the Mississippi and Missouri, as far as the forests extend, are more abundantly supplied, than any other parts of the union, with this valuable game, which forms an important part of the subsistence of the hunter and traveller in the wilderness. It is not probable that the range of this bird extends to, or beyond, the Rocky...