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A753 Book: Byron, John. 1768. The narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a late expedition around the world) containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746. London: S.Baker and G. Leigh, and T. Davies. Text

it moved upon the surface of the water, in a sort of half flying, half running motion. But we were not so successful in our endeavours by land; for though we sometimes got pretty far into the woods, we met with very few birds in all our walks. We never saw but three woodcocks, two of which were killed by Mr. Hamilton, and one by myself. These, with some humming-birds, and a large kind of robin redbreast, were the only feathered inhabitants of this island, excepting a small bird with two very

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A758.03 Beagle Library: Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 3. Text

. Keetsma, Puncturation. Mikeellzyth, To fasten, or tie a thing Cheeteeakamilzsth, White beads. Kakkumipt, A sea weed, or grass, on which they strew fish roe. Eissuk, A sort of leek; allium triquetrum. Kutskufhilzsth, To tear a thing. Mitzsleo, A knot. Mamakeeo, To tie a knot. Kluksilzsth, To loosen, or untie. Klakaikom, The leaf of a plant. Sasinne, or sasin, A humming bird. Koohquoppa, A granulated lily root they eat. Seeweebtr Alder tree. Kaweebt, Rasberry bush. Kleehseep, The flower of a plant

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A758.02 Beagle Library: Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2. Text

called the yellow-bellied wood-pecker. The other is a larger, and much more elegant bird, of a dusky brown colour, on the upper part, richly waved with black, except about the head; the belly of a reddish cast, with round black spots; a black spot on the breast; and the under-side of the wings and tail of a plain scarlet colour, though blackish above; with a crimson streak running from the angle of the mouth, a little down the neck on each side. The third and fourth, are a small bird of the finch

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A758.02 Beagle Library: Cook, James and King, James. 1784. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean undertaken, by the command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the northern hemisphere. 3 vols. London: Strachan. vol. 2. Text

1778. May. fisher, which had very fine bright colours; and the humming-bird, which came frequently and flew about the ship, while at anchor; though it can scarcely live here in the winter, which must be very severe. The water fowl were geese; a small sort of duck, almost like that mentioned at Kerguelen's Land; another sort which none of us knew; and some of the black seapyes, with red bills, which we found at Van Diemen's Land, and New Zealand. Some of the people who went on shore, killed a

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A924 Beagle Library: Phillip, Arthur. 1789. The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay: with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island, compiled from authentic papers which have been obtained from the several departments to which are added, the journals of Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Ball, & Capt. Marshall with an account of their new discoveries, embellished with fifty five copper plates, the maps and charts taken from actual surveys, & the plans & views drawn on the spot, by Capt. Hunter, Lieuts. Shortland, Watts, Dawes, Bradley, Capt. Marshall, &tc. London: John Stockdale Text

numbers of their eggs on board. Very large pigeons were also met with in great plenty; likewise beautiful parrots and parroquets; a new species, apparently, of the coote, and also of the rail, and magpie; and a most beautiful small bird, brown, with a yellow breast and yellow on the wing; it seemed to be a species of humming bird: there was also a black bird, like a sheerwater, with a hooked bill, which burrows in the ground. Numbers of ants were seen, which appeared the only insect at this place

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A754.01 Beagle Library: Vancouver, George. 1798. A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and round the world. 3 vols. London: G.G. and J. Robinson. vol. 1. Text

be much resorted to by the feathered race; two or three spruce partridges had been seen; with few in point of number, and little variety, of small birds: amongst which the humming birds bore a great proportion. At the outskirts of the woods, and about the water side, the white headed and brown eagle; ravens, carrion crows, American king's fisher, and a very handsome woodpecker, were seen in numbers; and in addition to these on the low projecting points, and open places in the woods, we

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A556.1 Beagle Library: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 1. Text Image

it. Their wing also serves them as a shield, by which they ward off blows, without receiving any hurt. THE zumbador, or hummer, is a night bird, peculiar to the mountainous deserts; and they are seldom seen, though frequently heard, both by the singing, and a strange humming made in the air by the rapidity of their flight, and which may be heard at the distance of fifty toises; and when near, is louder than that of a rocket. Their singing may indeed be called a kind of cry, resembling that of

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A556.1 Beagle Library: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 1. Text Image

smallness and the vivid colours of its feathers. It is generally called picaflores, or flower-peckers, from its hovering over them, and sucking their juices without lacerating or so much as disordering them. Its proper name is quinde, though it is also known by those of Rabilargo and Lisongero, and in England by that of humming bird. Its whole body, with its plumage, does not exceed the bigness of a middle-sized nutmeg; the tail is usually near three times the length of the whole body, yet has but few

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A556.2 Beagle Library: Ulloa, Antonio de. 1806. A voyage to South America: describing at large the Spanish cities, towns, provinces, &c. on that extensive continent. 4th ed. 2 vols. London: John Stockdale, R. Faulder, Longman, Lackington and J. Harding. vol. 2. Text Image

Guayaquil, commerce of Vol. i. 191 Guaylas, province of ii. 120 Guineos, described i. 74 how eaten ib. Guinea, suburb of Porto-Bello 88 Guinea pepper ii. 141 H. Habilla de Carthagena i. 52 Hambato, assiento of 312 Harbour of Porto-Bello 91 of Panama 118 Hazianda, what 31 Horses, American 442 Huayna Capac 299 Humming bird 439 Hunting, manner of at Quito 442 Hut, at Pichinca, described 217 Hypothesis, a new one to account for the want of rain in Peru ii. 67 for earthquakes 84 I. Jacumama

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A142 Book: Paley, W. 1809. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. 12th ed. London: Printed for J. Faulder. Text

arch over the heads of his inhabitants; and, at the other, bending a hooked tooth, concerting and providing an appropriate mechanism, for the clasping and reclasping of the filaments of the feather of the humming-bird. We have proof, not only of both these works proceeding from an intelligent agent, but of their proceeding from the same agent; for, in the first place, we can trace an identity of plan, a connexion of system, from Saturn to our own globe: and when arrived upon our globe, we can

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CUL-DAR75.113-117 Abstract: [1809--1882.04.00] [index to references concerning] `Variation under Nature' Text Image

Variation under Nature Forel (8vo Pamph. 628) on different value of grebe-chins from different Swiss lakes. Allen (8vo Pamph. 630) variability in nesting in U. States very good case – local habit of nesting on ground like my case of Black-bird. Murie Mivart. Zoolog. Transact vol. 7 Part I p. 96 on variability of muscle in Lemuridæ gradation p 98 the lower forms Journal of Linn. Soc vol. XI no. 52 Bot p 225 Baller's manner of classifying vars. of Rosa. Bot XI. no 53 p 265. Bentham on

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CUL-DAR84.2.159 Abstract: [Undated] Gould `Humming birds' IV: [pp?] Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [159] Vol. 4. Gould H. Bird (Humming Birds) Chrysobronchus viridicaulis ♀s young males have all tail-feathers tipped with white Bourcieria torquata ♂ ♀ has 8 outer tail-feathers white tipped with black; the central ones all black — (Wonderfully persistent the 2 or 4 central feathers not tipped.) (Endless diversities in the distribution of white dark colour in tail-feather

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CUL-DAR84.2.182 Note: [Undated] Caprimulgus prodigiously elongated tail & primary wing-feathers several Text Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (2 Caprimulgus prodigiously elongated tail primary wing-feathers several times length of body - in one shaft bare for a space ending in [illeg] disc. - I noticed tail disc-feathers, in a mot-mot Eumomota superciliaris - splendid birds – In a King-fisher tail - disc feathers - Humming - bird do - Dicrurus do - in some of Paradise birds, disc feathers on head latter beautifully ocellated - disc feathers in tail of a finch - in head of Lophornis Peacock

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CUL-DAR85.B92 Note: [Undated] Male & Female Birds / Some Parrakeets beautifully coloured but females Text Image

Even in some group certain plumes only on speculum plumes [few words illeg] Humming Bird Gallinaceous [6 lines illeg] Plumes gaudy colours not direct effect of conditions, for not common to Both sexes - of no use to male - indeed injurious to female - How then account for presence either in one sex or both sexes. Not least difficulty if a Selective power be granted, even in cases when characters confined to one sex, for new characters often arisen in correlation. Perhaps greatest difficulty is

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CUL-DAR84.2.3 Note: [Undated] Youn[g] of both sexes in first perfect plumage alike / N.B by true Text Image

++ Young of both in first perfect plumage not alike. (6) In this case the young male partially resembles the adult male the young female partially resembles the adult female; the adults may be widely definitive gaudy, as with some Humming birds – or moderately conspicuous as Black-bird, stone-chat --- blue solitary thrush This apparently result from male assuming adult plumage early in life or for both sexes having been modified. Cuvier began with adult then gives plumage of young - I must

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CUL-DAR84.2.87-97 Abstract: [Undated] Audubon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3, 5; Jerdon `[reference incomplete]': vols 1-3; Gould `[reference incomplete]' vols 1-2 Text Image

first nearly like ♀ very gradually in course of year assume plumage - not until 3d spring full brilliancy acquired. 254 Young Humming Bird - in autumn young ♂ begin to acquire red Throat. 280 Painted Finch —♂ 4 years to acquire full beauty - at first young ♂s like ♀ - wonderful contrast of Plumage. 327. Pigeon Passenger ♀ much duller than

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CUL-DAR196.5.1-5 Abstract: [Undated] Pallas Mémoire sur la variation des animaux `Acta Acad St Petersburg' 1780 part 2: 69 Text Image

Thus in same longitude, we find 3 nations similar in physiognomy, colour of hair skin — Phytophagous Indian, civilized. — nomad carnivorous Tartar Mongolian ichythophagous Samojeda in Zone glacial. — by the side of whom are the people Asiatique nourished by same food, who differ greatly in them in appearance. — This not so wonderful as Puma Humming-bird Troglodytes of Falklands some owls Hawks. — Yet as put as Pallas it strikes one very forcibly. — Argue against this — There is not necessarily

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A787.02 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1811. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain. 2 vols. John Black, trans. New York: I. Riley. vol. 2. Text

species of proteus.Zoologie Analytique, p. 93. Huitzlin means humming-bird; and opochtli means left; for the god was painted with humming bird's feathers under the left foot. The Europeans have corrupted the word huitzilopochtli into huichilobos, and vizlipuzli. The brother of this god, who was much revered by the inhabitants of Tezcuco, was called Tlaca-huepan-Cuexcotzin. VOL. II. C [page] 1

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A787.02 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1811. Political essay on the kingdom of New Spain. 2 vols. John Black, trans. New York: I. Riley. vol. 2. Text

ful shrub which bears the name of Linneus was only discovered by the gardeners in Vancouver's expedition in higher latitudes. John Mears, and a Spanish officer in particular, Don Pedro Alberoni, succeeded at Nootka in the cultivation of all the European vegetables; but the maize and wheat, however, never yielded ripe grain. A too great luxuriance of vegetation appears to be the cause of this phenomenon. The true humming-bird has been observed in the islands of Quadra and Vancouver. This

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A793.2 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 2. Text

, F., a hymenopterous insect, down in the same box with many others, amongst which was the humming-bird hawk-moth (Sphinx stellatarum, L.), its proper food; it freed itself from the pin that transfixed it, and, neglecting all the other insects in the box, attacked the Sphinx, and pulling it to pieces devoured a large portion of its abdomen. We often wonder how the cheese-mite (Acarus Siro, L.) is at hand to attack a cheese wherever deposited; but when we learn from Leeuwenhoek, that one lived

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A793.2 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 2. Text

their amusement elsewhere. The most remarkable insects in this respect are the sphinxes, and from this they doubtless took their name of hawk-moths. When they unfold their long tongue, and wipe its sweets from any nectariferous flower, they always keep upon the wing, suspending themselves over it till they have exhausted them, when they fly away to another. The species called by collectors the humming-bird (S. Stellatarum, L.), and by some persons mistaken for a real one, is remarkable for this

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A793.2 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 2. Text

their wings, it might be supposed that many lepidopterous insects would not be silent in their flight; and indeed many of the hawk-moths (Sphinx, F.), and some of the larger moths (Bombyx, F.), are not so; B. Cossus, for instance, is said to emulate the booming of beetles by means of its large stiff wings; whence in Germany it is called the humming-bird (Brumm-Vogel). But the great body of these numerous tribes, even those that fan the air with sail-broad vans, produce little or no sound by their

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A793.2 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 2. Text

pair of mill-stonesa most probably do not feed in silence. A little wood-louse (Psocus pulsatorius, Latr.) which on that account has been confounded with the death-watch is said also, when so engaged, to emit a ticking noise. Certain two-winged flies seen in spring, distinguished by a very long proboscis (Bombylius, L.), hum all the time that they suck the honey from the flowers; as do also many hawk-moths, particularly that called from this circumstance the humming-bird (Sphinx Stellatarum L

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A793.3 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 3. Text

the insect producing them, though in some instances small ones produce larger eggs than those laid by bigger species. Thus the eggs of many Aptera, as those of that singular mite Uropoda vegetans, and of the bird-louse found in the golden pheasant, are nearly as large, it is probable, as the parent insect; while those of the ghost-moth (Hepialus Humuli) and many other Lepidoptera, c. are vastly smaller. This circumstance perhaps depends principally on the number they produce: the majority of

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A793.3 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 3. Text

the abdomen more or less, the scutellum is a short transverse distinct piece. In the Lepidoptera, from the difficulty of abrading sufficiently the scales and hairs without injury, it is difficult to obtain a correct idea of the part in question; in the cabbage butterfly (Pieris Brassic ) it appears to be triangular: in the humming-bird hawk-moth (Macro-glossum Stellatarum) it approaches to a rhomboidal shapec; and in the eggar-moth (Lasiocampa Quercus) it is completely rhomboidal. In the

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A793.4 Beagle Library: Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1815-26. An introduction to entomology. 4 vols. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. vol. 4. Text

Habit, what, iv. 551. Habitations of solitary insects, i. 435: of gregarious insects, 446. curious ones ofTineid , i. 457. Harvest-man, iv. 114. Hawkmoth, bee, i. 209: death's-head, 34, 163; ii. 240, 266; hornet, i. 209: humming-bird, ii. 369, 383: privet, iii, 266: spurge, 266. Hawkmoths, ii. 237. Hearing of insects, organ of, iv. 240. Heart of insects, what represented by? iv. 84: of Arachnida, 93. Heat (vital) of insects, ii. 229: iv. 77. Herbage benefited by insects, i. 249. Herod (Agrippa

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A597.3 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3. Text

Tucuchi, humming-bird. Sicotu, chigoe, pulex penetrans. Bututo, pronouncing the b nearly as an f, flute. Camo, to sing. Tandema, to morrow. Chuque take, imperative. Pisca, carry, imperative. Tropse, he bursts. Kesoptreipnei, he is ill. Ispinkepolepi, it is hot. Tenetkinpoli, it is cold. Nesselcane, it thunders. Tinpole poc maney, it rains already. Mico nis-inimipani, a child is born. Tuquerizque camanay, or tuputcamanay? are you married? (masc.) Tuaneccamanay, are you married? (fem

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A597.4 Beagle Library: Humboldt, Alexander von. 1819-1829. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of the New Continent, during the years 1799-1804. By Alexander de Humboldt, and Aimé Bonpland; with maps, plans, &c. written in French by Alexander de Humboldt, and trans. into English by Helen Maria Williams. 7 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 4. Text

, whose head and waist are decorated with fine feathers of the macaw, the toucan, the tanager, and the humming bird. Our painters and sculptors have long since regarded these ornaments as the cha * A word of the Caribbean language. The perizoma of the Indians of the Oroonoko is rather a band than an apron. See above, vol. iii, p. 231, 232. [page] 52

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A809 Beagle Library: Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. 1820. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, and 1817. Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn. Text

not finding them, left their poles standing at the Quartel, as the sign of a challenge, and departed again towards evening. During the following days, however, * Trochilus ater, a hitherto undescribed humming-bird, whose plumage is not pretty; male 5 inches long; bill slightly curved; body nearly black, only in some places of a shining grey and copperas colour; sides under the wings, rump, and tail, white, on the latter a border of a violet colour, the middle feathers varying with dark green and

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A809 Beagle Library: Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. 1820. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, and 1817. Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn. Text

to explore the beautiful adjacent country. The groves were animated by numbers of birds just commencing their early songs. If our ears were charmed on one side by the most melodious notes of some, our attention was attracted in an opposite direction by the gaudy and shining plumage of others. I soon shot a water-hen, and several kinds of tangara of the finest plumage, and a humming-bird of exquisite beauty. The sun became more oppressive, and I returned to our resting-place. Each hunter then

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A809 Beagle Library: Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. 1820. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, and 1817. Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn. Text

constructed nest of the blue-crowned humming-bird; this species greatly resembles the trochilus bicolor. In all these nests there are two white eggs, which in some species were extremely small. Continuing our route, we passed between several lakes, and after a long day's journey we reached a venda situated on the lake Sagoarema, where we found the mules and our attendants, who had gone by another road. We also expected that the kettles were already suspended over the fire; but every requisite for

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A809 Beagle Library: Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied. 1820. Travels in Brazil in the years 1815, 1816, and 1817. Volume 1. London: Henry Colburn. Text

and wide through the gloomy solitude of these forests, and other beautiful birds, among which I shall mention the black humming * Strix pulsatrix, so called from its note, which resembles a knocking; without ears; male bird 17 inches 4 lines long; 44 inches 9 lines broad; greater part of the plumage of a beautiful light reddish brown grey colour; a white spot on the throat; scapular feathers, delicately marbled of a dark colour, the wings and tail the same; quill-feathers with darker and lighter

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A794.03 Beagle Library: Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 3. Text

north visit this coast; the sea-lion is common, and the sea-otter now no where more frequent than here. There is an uncommon number and variety of birds, the Oriolus phaniceus is found in innumerable flocks. We did not see a single kind of the family of creepers, and a splendid humming-bird seemed to be a stranger which had strayed hither from the south. Melancholy feelings attend our offering a few [page] 4

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A794.01 Beagle Library: Kotzebue, Otto von. 1821. A voyage of discovery, into the South Sea and Beering's Straits, for the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of his highness the chancellor of the empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the lieutenant in the Russian imperial navy. Translated by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. vol. 1. Text

laid out in the open air, under orange-trees; the humming-bird, and others unknown to us, fluttered round the orange blossoms; and, after the monotonous view of the stormy sea, we doubly revelled in this paradise. The Governor, from whom the officers of the Nadeshda experienced so much friendship, was now at the Rio de la Plata. In the evening I was again on board the Rurick, and made preparations to have my tent erected, on the following day, in the [page] 11

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A855 Beagle Library: Swainson, William. 1822. The naturalist's guide for collecting and preserving all subjects of natural history and botany, intended for the use of students and travellers. London: W.Wood, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, and Liverpool: W. Grapel. Text

should be very small. Humming-birds are best shot when on the wing, hovering over the blossoms of trees, on which they feed. In some parts of America the natives have a method of procuring these little creatures by shooting them with a blow-pipe, without the least injury to their plumage; and whenever they can be got in this state, the specimens will be much better for preserving. We now proceed to the immediate object of their preservation. On taking the bird out of the paper, smooth the feathers

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A773.02 Beagle Library: Fleming, John. 1822. The philosophy of zoology; or, A general view of the structure, functions, and classification of animals. 2 vols. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co. vol. 2. Text

. Body larger, and bill broader than the preceding. Graculus scandens. Tail not used in climbing. 120. VESTIARIA. Bill bent, nearly semicircularly, Certhia vestiaria. 121. NECTARINA. Bill slightly bent. Certhia cyanea. (2.) Claws of the ordinary size. Feet short. Tongue filiform, and divided at the end, Plumage of metallic brilliancy. 122. TROCHILUS. Humming bird. This is an extensive genus, subdivided into those species which have curved bills, and those which have straight ones. Feet of the

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A855 Beagle Library: Swainson, William. 1822. The naturalist's guide for collecting and preserving all subjects of natural history and botany, intended for the use of students and travellers. London: W.Wood, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, and Liverpool: W. Grapel. Text

is a useful precaution to prevent their being attacked by insects before they are well dry. If the traveller finds his ability unequal to skinning a Humming-bird, he may suspend these little creatures by a thread (fastened to the bill) from the ceiling; and if there is a current of dry air, they will soon become hard; but as in this state the soap cannot be applied, they must be put into a small box, with some camphor, by themselves, and the lid pasted down to exclude air and insects. Bats may

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A732.02 Beagle Library: Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2. Text

parrots, but these never pass the mountains into the valleys or ravines. The picaflor, humming bird, is found in all the warm climates of these districts. I have counted five varieties, and have often caught them with my hat, when the fairy-like creatures have been employed in sipping the honey of the plantain flower. The majestic condor holds his court in the mountainous parts of South America, and makes excursions in search of food to the valleys and the coast. Three varieties inhabit these

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A732.02 Beagle Library: Stevenson, William Bennet. 1825. A historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America: containing the travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results. 3 vols. London: Hurst, Robinson & Co. vol. 2. Text

and sometimes from another. On the arrival of a stranger it will immediately parade the room, and receive him with a musical welcome. Here are also several varieties of pigeons and other small birds, particularly humming birds; these beautiful flutterers fly in all directions, sipping the honey from the flowers, especially those of the plantain and the banana, which are their favourites, and in which they are often completely hidden while feeding on their nectareous sweets. The small birds are

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

additional evidence of this beautiful mockery of vision, as in the alcedo cristata, several of the species of trochilus, or humming bird, c.; add to these the change of tint in the indigo bird, described in Mr. Wilson's American Ornithology.* It appears at one time of a rich sky-blue at another of a vivid verdigris green so that the same bird, in passing from one place to another before your eyes, seems to undergo a total change of colour. When the angle of incidence, in the rays of light reflected

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A735 Beagle Library: Murray, John. 1826. Experimental researches on the light and luminous matter of the glow-worm, the luminosity of the sea, the phenomena of the chameleon, the ascent of the spider into the atmosphere, and the torpidity of the tortoise, &c. Glasgow: W. R. M'Phun. Text

requires violent exertion the true cause of the expulsion of the morbife virus: being determined to the surface of the body, it is carried off through the medium of perspiration. The aranea avicularia is covered over with hair And catches small birds which it devours. I remember to have once seen in Bollock's Museum, a spider of this kind with a trochilus or humming-bird entangled in its net. The aranea diadema is found in gardens: it is sometimes met with of considerable size. A monstrous one

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