 | 1850 - 642 halaman
...power, for there is scarcely any movement of the wings seen after the first and frequent impulses are given, when the creature elevates itself in the air...such long flights without repose. • • » When seizing on an object floating on the water, they gradually descend with expanded or upraised wings,... | |
 | John Gould - 1865 - 682 halaman
...the stern of the ship with an independence of manner as if it were ' monarch of all it survey 'd.' It is from the very little muscular exertion used...of sustaining such long flights without repose When seizing an object floating on the water they gradually descend with expanded or upraised wings, or... | |
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... given, when the creature elevates itself in the air ; rising and falling as if some concealed power guided its various motions, without any muscular exertion of its own ; and then descending sweeps the air close to the stern of the ship, with an independence... 