Volume 3

Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles / Embellished with upwards of two hundred engravings.

  • Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788.
Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Natural history of birds, fish, insects, and reptiles / Embellished with upwards of two hundred engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ** clamorous, as more remote from the nest. ‘If she sees them very near, she then seems ** to be quite unconcerned, and her cries cease, “ *‘ while her terrors are really augmenting. If “ there be dogs, she flies heavily at a little dis- *‘ tance before them, as if maimed ;- still voci- “ ferous and still bold, but never offering to “‘ move towards the quarter where her treasure. “is deposited. The dog pursues, in hopes “‘ every moment of seizing the parent, and by ‘* this means actually loses the young ; for the “ cunning bird, when she has thus: drawn him ‘* off to a proper distance, then puts forth her ** powers, and leaves her astonished pursuer to “* gaze at the rapidity of her flight. The eggs of all these birds are highly valued by the lux- urious ; they are ‘boiled hard, and thus served ‘“* up, without any further preparation. <¢ As the young of this class are soon hatched, _ Lot a “ oN “ \ so, when excluded, they quickly arrive at ma- turity. They run about after the mother as_ soon as they leave the egg; and being covered with a thick down, want very little of that ** clutching which all birds of the poultry kind ** that follow the mother indispensably require. fe They come~-to their adult state long before. “<< winter ; 3 and then flock together, till the “* breeding A” ON n nr “