 | 1868 - 398 pages
...size turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable ; the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its burden... | |
 | 1868 - 506 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow, and an unhatched eggThis contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several rimes nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...out the other, together with the young Hedge-Sparrow, and the unhatched egg. The contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times, nearly to the top of th'e nest, and again sank down, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | John Hogg (publisher.) - 1878 - 536 pages
...out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest, he adds, was very remarkable : the combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and again sank down oppressed by the weight of its burthen... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedgesparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again oppressed with the weight of... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1882 - 558 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young Hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | William H. Wintringham - 1892 - 446 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sank down again oppressed with the weight of... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 pages
...superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of the burthen... | |
 | Louis Compton Miall - 1896 - 314 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young Hedge-sparrow and the unhatchcd egg. The contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 334 pages
...size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. This contest was very remarkable. The combatants alternately appeared to have the advantage, as each carried the other several times nearly to the top of the nest, and then sunk down again, oppressed by the weight of its... | |
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... the next afternoon; when one of them, which was somewhat superior in size, turned out the other, together with the young hedge-sparrow and the unhatched egg. 
