land-birds

The wind sang softly in the cedars, and the water sang among the eaves: the sea-birds sang as they streamed out into the ocean, and the land-birds as they built among the boughs; and the air was so full of song that it stirred

The Water Babies 2007

About fifty-six species of land-birds are known to inhabit this island, and of these, a kingfisher (Tanysiptera Boris), a honey-sucker

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Cut of about seventy land-birds inhabiting Ceram, only fifteen are found in New

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Guinea genera does not extend to the species, for no less than 140 out of the 195 land-birds are peculiar to the Moluccan islands, while 32 are found also in New Guinea, and 15 in the

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Out of the seventy-eight genera in which the Moluccan land-birds may be classed, no less than seventy are characteristic of Yew Guinea, while only six belong specially to the Indo – Malay islands.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

On the other hand, such wide — spread groups as the thrushes, warblers, and finches, which in India form nearly one-third of all the land-birds, dwindle down in the

The Malay Archipelago 2004

I collected one hundred species of land-birds in the Aru Islands, and about eighty of them, have been found on the mainland of New

The Malay Archipelago 2004

At Tristan d'Acunha, where, according to Carmichael, there are only two land-birds, there is a coot.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It can boast only of moss, some tufts of grass, and wild burnet; it has only one land-bird (Anthus correndera), yet Iceland, which is 10° nearer the pole, has, according to Mackenzie, fifteen land-birds.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

It cannot be doubted that, if there were land-birds to pick up the seeds when first cast on shore, and a soil better adapted for their growth than the loose blocks of coral, the most isolated of the lagoon islands would in time possess a far more abundant Flora than they now have.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003