 ... surprising. The ground is covered to the depth of several inches with their dung ; all the tender grass and underwood destroyed; the surface strewed with large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another, and...  The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist - Seite 1701857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1821 - 444 Seiten
...one above another ; the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if smitten with an axe. The marks of this desolation remain for...for several years after, scarcely a single vegetable had made its appearance. ' When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 380 Seiten
...large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitant... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1831 - 484 Seiten
...with large limbs of trees broken off by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. " VV hen these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 Seiten
...large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as...single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in the night, with guns,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 478 Seiten
...by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves; WILD PIGEON. fur thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled...could be pointed out where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. " When the roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1835 - 474 Seiten
...off by the weight of the birds clustering one above another ; and the trees themselves, WILD PIGEON. for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if...could be pointed out where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. " When the roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 414 Seiten
...with large limbs of trees, broke down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another: and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed,...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell Eyton - 1836 - 200 Seiten
...large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another, and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as...could be pointed out, where, for several years after, scarce a single vegetable made its appearance. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants,... | |
 | Thomas Bingley - 1840 - 236 Seiten
...large limbs of trees, broken down by the weight of the birds clustering one above another, and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as...vegetable made its appearance. " When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants from considerable distances visit them in the night with guns,... | |
 | 1846 - 872 Seiten
...collecting one above another — a single tree often containing above one hundred nests — and the trees themselves, for thousands of acres, killed as completely as if girdled with an axe. When these roosts are first discovered, the inhabitants, from considerable distances, visit them in... | |
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