 | Elliott Coues, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1874 - 818 Seiten
...strikingly illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat, of perhaps an acre in extent, where their favorite snails were...quantities. Although six or eight gunners were stationed upon the spot, and kept up a continual round of tiring upon the poor birds, they continued to fly distractedly... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 Seiten
...strikingly illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat, of perhaps an acre in extent, where their favorite snails were...quantities. Although six or eight gunners were stationed upon the spot, and kept up a continual round of tiring upon the poor birds, they continued to fly distractedly... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 Seiten
...strikingly illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat, of perhaps an acre in extent, where their favorite snails were...quantities. Although six or eight gunners were stationed upon the spot, antl kept up a continual rouud of tiring upon the poor birds, they continued to fly... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 826 Seiten
...gunners were stationed upon the spot, and kept up a continual round of tiring upon the poor birds, tbey continued to fly distractedly about over our heads,...notwithstanding the numbers that every moment fell. Tbey seemed in terror lest tbey should lose their accustomed fare of snails that day. On another occasion,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1916 - 802 Seiten
...strikingly illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat of perhaps an acre In extent, where their favorite snails were in great quantities. Although sir or eight gunners were stationed upon the spot and kept up a continual round of firing upon the... | |
 | Gerrit Smith Miller, Glover Morrill Allen - 1928 - 1098 Seiten
...strikingly Illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat, of perhaps an acre in extent, where their favorite snails were...quantities. Although six or eight gunners were stationed upon the spot, and kept up a continual round of firing upon the poor birds, they continued to fly distractedly... | |
 | Farley Mowat - 2004 - 436 Seiten
...Coues described a typical entertainment of this sort. "Although six or eight gunners were stationed at the spot and kept up a continual round of firing upon...poor birds, they continued to fly distractedly about our heads, notwithstanding the numbers that every moment fell." If local residents found powder too... | |
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The pertinacity with which they cling to certain feeding grounds, even when much molested, I saw strikingly illustrated on one occasion. The tide was rising and about to flood a muddy flat, of perhaps an acre in extent, where their favorite snails were... 