A Spring and Summer in Lapland: With Notes on the Fauna of Luleä LapmarkGroombridge and Sons, 1864 - 407 pages |
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A spring and summer in Lapland; with notes on the fauna of Luleä Lapmark, by ... Horace William Wheelwright Affichage du livre entier - 1864 |
A Spring and Summer in Lapland: with notes on the fauna of Luleä Lapmark ... Affichage du livre entier - 1864 |
A spring and summer in Lapland; with notes on the fauna of Luleä Lapmark, by ... Horace William Wheelwright Affichage du livre entier - 1871 |
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appear autumn birch broad-billed sandpiper bunting certainly charr colour common crossbill deep district duck early eggs English miles fact Falco fancy fauna feathers fieldfare fish forest goose grosbeak ground habits hazel grouse horses Iockmock journey June killed land Lapland lemming little owl Luleä male meadow morning moss moult naturalist nest never saw night northern obtained old birds old female parrot crossbill peasant pine pine grosbeak pipit plumage pretty ptarmigan Quickiock rare red grouse reindeer river road sandpiper scarcely seemed seen shooting shore lark shot Siberian jay Siberian tit side skin sledge snow snow bunting snowy owl soon specimens spot spring summer dress Sweden Swedish mile Tengmalm's owl took town tract traveller tree trout village wagtail warbler Wermland whole wild willow grouse winter woodpecker yellow young birds
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Page 8 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 302 - ... have not the white spots above and below the eyes ; these are young birds. The changes of plumage, to which birds of this genus are subject, have tended not a little to confound the naturalist; and a considerable collision of opinion, arising from an imperfect acquaintance with the living subjects, has been the result. To investigate thoroughly their history, it is obviously necessary that the ornithologist should frequently explore their native haunts; and, to determine the species of periodical...
Page 61 - January, and the greateft teat in furnmer commonly towards the end of July. 3. The MIDDLE TEMPERATURE for the whole year, if we except the periods when the feafons exert their particular influence, is about the freezing point of the thermometer, or, in other words, conftant winter. 4. The night frofts are fometimes pretty fharp, efpecially from about the loth to the 2oth of Auguft.
Page 117 - The bread given to support life is composed of pease" straw, combined with Iceland-moss and a small proportion of " flour." The " Old Bushman," in his " Spring and Summer in Lapland," J writes, " That the Reindeer thrive [on Cl. rangiferina], " is proved by the fact that no park -fed Deer in England can look " fatter and sleeker than the Reindeer when they come down " from the fells at the end of summer ; in fact, ' fat as a Rein" deer,
Page 28 - This poor man had the misfortune of being ruined by a fire, which consumed all his household furniture with his library, from which he could not even save his Bible.
Page 47 - The land-breeze blew mild, and the azure-arched sky Looked pure as the spirit that made it: The murmur rose soft, as I silently gazed On the shadowy waves...
Page 276 - Speaking of the ptarmigan, the late Mr. Thompson says, " We hardly draw on the imagination by viewing its plumage as an exquisite miniature of the seasonal changes which the mountain summit undergoes ; — a miniature drawn, too, by a Hand that never errs ! In summer we look upon the beautiful mixture of...
Page 204 - The hawk owl is by iio means shy, and in the breeding season is one of the boldest of all birds. Seated on the top of a dead pine, close to the nest where his mate is sitting, the old male bird keeps a constant watch, and as soon as any one appears to be approaching the nest, he raises his tail and head (just after the manner of the cuckoo), and uttering a shrill cry, not unlike that of the kestrel hawk, down he comes full on the head of the intruder ; dashing by with the speed of lightning, he returns...
Page 248 - ... bright yellow-green dress which the old male crossbills occasionally assume (but which, although so rare that we very seldom meet with it, we must nevertheless still consider as normal), it is hard to say at what age it is assumed, but we may reasonably infer at a very advanced period of life in a...