 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...dropped into the nest again. With these, the extremities of its wings, I have often seen it examine as it were an egg and nestling, before it began its operations ; and the nice sensibilities which these parts seem to possess, seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 498 pages
...into the' nest again: With these (the extremities of its wings) I have '6fteh. seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations...was destitute of. I afterwards put in an egg; and Lhis, by a similar process, was conveyed to the edge of 'the nest, and thrown out. These experiments... | |
 | 1829 - 600 pages
...dropped into the nest again. With these (the extremity of its wings,) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations;...sensibility which these parts appeared to possess, seemed sufficient to compensate the want of sight, which as yet it was destitute of. I afterwards put in an... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 476 pages
...into the nest again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations;...sufficiently to compensate the want of sight, which ns yet it was destitute of. I afterwards put in an egg; and this, by a similar process, was conveyed... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 648 pages
...began its operations ; and the nice sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficient to compensate the want of sight, which, as yet, it...out. These experiments I have since repeated several tunes in different nests, and have always found the young cuckoo disposed to act in the same manner.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1830 - 650 pages
...again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg or nestling before it began its operations ; and the...sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficient to compensate the want of sight, which, as yet, it was destitute of. I afterwards put in... | |
 | 1831 - 652 pages
...into the nest again. With these, the extremities of its wings, I hare often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations ; and the nice sensibilities which these parts seem to possess, seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...into the nest again. With these, the extremities of its wings, I have often seen it examine, as it were an egg and nestling before it began its operations ; and the nice sensibilities which these parts seem to posses«, seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight,... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1835 - 604 pages
...into the nest again. With these, the extremities of its wings, I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg and nestling before it began its operations ; and the nice sensibilities which these parts seem to possess, seemed sufficiently to compensate the want of sight,... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1841 - 510 pages
...again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often seen it examine, as it were, an egg or nestling before it began its operations ; and the...sensibility which these parts appeared to possess seemed sufficient to compensate the want of sight, which, as yet, it was destitute of. I afterwards put in... | |
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It remained in this situation a short time, feeling about with the extremities of its wings, as if to be convinced whether the business was properly executed, and then dropped into the nest again. With these (the extremities of its wings) I have often... 
