 | 1846 - 522 trang
...majestically above them. I subjoin Wilson's graphical and eloquent account of this prince of quarrys. " This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...of our country, is entitled to particular notice. The celebrated cataract of Niagara is a noted place of resort for the bald eagle, as well on account... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 532 trang
...is given with remarkable spirit, and with imagery so minute and glowing, as to attest its truth. ' This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1827 - 538 trang
...is given with remarkable spirit, and with imagery so minute and glowing, as to attest its truth. i This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from... | |
 | 1831 - 472 trang
...(From Wilson's American Ornithology, judiciously re-printed in two volumes of Constable'» Miscellany.) THIS distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...of our country, is entitled to particular notice. The celebrated Cataract of Niagara is a noted place of resort for the bald eagle, as well on account... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 426 trang
...LINN.—WHITE-HEADED, OB BALB EAGLE,* WILSON. WILSON, PLATE XXXVI.•)• EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSICM. THIS distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...of our country, is entitled to particular notice. * The epithet bald, applied to this species, whose head is thickly covered with feathers, is equally... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 trang
...Awl. Orn. Biog. ip 160, pi. 31, male -- Aquilu (Haliaectus) leucocephala, A'urtii. Zool. ii. p. 15. THIS distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...particular notice. He is represented in the plate of one third his natural size, and was drawn from • The epithet bald applied to this species, whose... | |
 | 1832 - 650 trang
...animation and a strong feeling of the beauties of nature in the following extracts from Wilson. ' " This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has long been known to naturalists, being common * ' Wilson, iv., p. 89.' to both continents and occasionally... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1832 - 648 trang
...peculiar animation and a strong feeling of the beauties of nature in the following extracts from Wilson. " 'This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has long been known to naturalists, being common to both * "Wilson, iv., p. 89." continents, and occasionally... | |
 | 1832 - 478 trang
...following are his descriptions of the mocking bird and bald eagle : " This distinguished bird, [the eagle,] as he is the most beautiful of his tribe in this part...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1837 - 344 trang
...splendid work on American birds, abounding in the most minute, lively, and eloquent descriptions. " This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful...our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally met with from... | |
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This distinguished bird, as he is the most beautiful of his tribe in this part of the world, and the adopted emblem of our country, is entitled to particular notice. He has been long known to naturalists, being common to both continents, and occasionally... 
