 The sexes roost apart, but at no great distance, so that, when the female utters a call, every male within hearing responds, rolling note after note, in the most rapid succession ; not as when spreading the tail and strutting near the hen, but in a voice...  Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc - 53 ページ 編集 - 1826全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 392 ページ
...search of food ; in this way they pass the autumn, and part of the winter. During this season freat numbers are killed by the inhabitants, who preserve...the woods from one end to the other, sometimes for hundreds of miles, resound with this remarkable voice of their wooing, uttered responsively from their... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 760 ページ
...as to venture on the plantations, and even approach so near the farmhouses as to enter the stables and corncribs, in search of food ; in this way they...after note, in the most rapid succession ; not as wheu spreading the tail and strutting near the hen, but in a voice resembling that of the tame turkey,... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - 1831 - 346 ページ
...a part of the winter. Early in March the females separate themselves from and shun the males ; they roost apart, but at no great distance, so that when...utters a call, every male within hearing responds, rolh'ng note after note in the most rapid succession. Where the Turkeys are numerous, the woods from... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - 1834 - 388 ページ
...as to venture on the plantations, and even approach so near the farm-houses as to enter the stables and corn-cribs in search of food ; in this way they...the woods, from one end to the other, sometimes for hundreds of miles, resound with this remarkable voice of their wooing, uttered responsively from their... | |
 | 1846 - 544 ページ
...a frozen state, in order to transport them to a distant market. Early in March they begin to pair. The sexes roost apart, but at no great distance, so...call, every male within hearing responds, rolling note for note, in the most rapid succession ; not as when spreading the tail and strutting near the hen,... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1853 - 550 ページ
...and shun their mates, though the latter pertinaciously follow them, uttering their gobbling notes. The sexes roost apart, but at no great distance, so...call, every male within hearing responds, rolling nol after note, in the most rapid succession ; not as when spread g the tail and strutting near the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 ページ
...gobbling note. The sexes roost apart, but at no great distance, so that, when the female utters a rail, every male within hearing responds, rolling note after...the most rapid succession ; not as when spreading th« tail and strutting near the hen, but in a voice resembling that of the tame turkey, when he hears... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 ページ
...pertinaciously follow them, uttering their gobbling note. The sexes roost apart, but at no great di.-tance, so that, when the female utters a call, every male within hearing responds, rolling nolu after note, in the most rapid succession ; not as when spreading the tail and strutting near the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 ページ
...separate from their mates, and shun them, though the latter pertinaciously follow them, gobbling loudly. The sexes roost apart, but at no great distance, so...the woods, from one end to the other, sometimes for hundreds of miles, resound with this remarkable voice of their wooing, uttered responsively from their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 ページ
...so that, when the female utters a ¿•all, every male within htaring responds, rolling note iifter note, in the most rapid succession ; not as when spreading...the woods from one end to the other, sometimes for hundreds of miles, resound with this remarkable voice of their wooing, uttered responsively from their... | |
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