Bird-life; being a history of the bird, its structure, and habits, together with sketches of fifty different species (1874)
Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884 · London, J. Van Voorst · leaf 849
s once cursedand abused, aye, seriously threatened even, on an occasionwhen I sought to examine the nest and take the eggs ofthe Sacred Black Stork, in the Eastern Soudan; and Ionly succeeded in appeasing the anger of the crowd byasserting that I wanted to prepare a valuable medicine,in which it… … CHAPTEK I. THE GREAT WHITE HERON (Egretta alba). The moping Heron, motionless and stiff,That on a stone, as silently and stilly,Stood, an apparent sentinel, as ifTo guard the water-lily. THOMAS HOOD. MICHELET, in speaking of the Heron, calls it thetype of melancholy, the dreamer of the swamp, a…
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