Project Gutenberg 2020-04-12 Public domain in the USA. 88 Bingley, Thomas Landells, Ebenezer 1808 1860 Landells, E. (Ebenezer) Scott, William Bell 1811 1890 Scott, W. B. (William Bell) Scott, William B. (William Bell) Tales About Birds, Illustrative of Their Nature, Habits, and Instincts Uncle Thomas tells about the golden eagle, and narrates various stories illustrative of its ferocity and power -- Uncle Thomas tells about the osprey, or sea-eagle, and about the white-headed or bald eagle of America -- Uncle Thomas tells several interesting tales about the ferocity and tenacity of life in the vulture, and about the greediness with which it devours its prey -- Uncle Thomas tells about the various kinds of falcons, and describes the sport of hawking, as anciently practised in England -- Uncle Thomas tells about owls, and of the curious peculiarities in their structure, which enables them to seek for and secure their prey during the night -- Uncle Thomas tells about the heron, and its place of retreat; as well as about the affection and gentleness of the stork and the crane -- Uncle Thomas tells about some interesting peculiarities in the habits of the ostrich and the emu, as well as about those of the turkey in its native forests -- Uncle Thomas tells about parrots, their seeming intelligence, and relates several curious stories of their power of imitating the human voice. Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) en Birds -- Juvenile literature QL Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Nature/Gardening/Animals Browsing: Science - General 252103 252114 2024-08-25T11:47:33.748680 2023-09-26T10:52:51.365052 text/html text/html 248458 2020-04-11T18:57:58 text/html; charset=utf-8 1151104 2020-04-11T18:58:00 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1180401 2024-08-25T11:47:38.557665 application/epub+zip 1178165 2024-08-25T11:47:34.824681 application/epub+zip 172463 2024-08-25T11:47:34.282688 application/epub+zip 1245683 2024-08-25T11:47:41.527666 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1225494 2024-08-25T11:47:38.032689 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 220997 2022-09-27T22:39:29.516668 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 221618 221607 2024-08-25T11:47:33.334713 2023-09-26T10:52:50.880056 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 221652 2020-04-11T18:57:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 83320 2020-04-11T18:57:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 20610 2024-08-25T11:47:41.678632 application/rdf+xml 18920 2024-08-25T11:47:34.372664 image/jpeg 2511 2024-08-25T11:47:34.326679 image/jpeg 1153034 2024-08-25T11:47:33.794699 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia