 Their young are fed for a time with soft fruits, young vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars, and so great is the number of these that are consumed by the parent birds, and their successive bvoods of young, that it is a question whether the...  Chamber and cage birds, tr. by W.E. Shuckard - 第 224 頁Johann Matthaeus Bechstein 著 - 1871完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1883 - 730 頁
...buds of fruit trees. The observations on this bird in Yarrell's 'British Birds,' vol. i., state that " their young are fed for a time with soft fruits, young...vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars "; likewise that, "as summer advances, and young birds of the year are able to follow the old ones,... | |
 | T B. M - 1844 - 274 頁
...feathers in winter, and carrying them away to its home. The young are fed with soft fruits, tender vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars ; and so great is the number of destructive insects consumed by the parents and their brood, that it is a question whether the good... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 516 頁
...menageries fearlessly feeding among birds and beasts of all possible descriptions. It feeds its young for a time with soft fruits, young vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars. It is itself good eating. Much has been written on the question of the comparative usefulness, or the... | |
 | Illustrated sketches - 1864 - 364 頁
...feathers in winter, and carrying them away to its home. The young are fed with soft fruits, tender vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars ; and so great is the number of destructive insects consumed by the parents and their brood, that it is believed the good thus performed... | |
 | Thomas George Gentry - 1878 - 144 頁
...kinds, which also afford the chief nourishment of its young." Yarrell, writing in 1843, says, "The young are fed for a time with soft fruits, young vegetables,...and seeds required at other seasons of the year." William Thompson, Esq., bears testimony in his jSTatural History of Ireland, which was published in... | |
 | Eleanor Anne Ormerod - 1878 - 534 頁
...buds of fruit trees. The observations on this bird in Yarrell's 'British Birds,' vol. i., state that " their young are fed for a time with soft fruits, young...vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars " ; likewise that, " as summer advances, and young birds of the year are able to follow the old ones,... | |
 | 1863 - 682 頁
...Cornwall. Observations on the usefulness of the Common Sparrow.— " The young are fed," says Yarrell, "for a time with soft fruits, young vegetables, and...birds and their successive broods of young, that it is not a fair equivalent for the grain and seeds required at other seasons of the year." Mr. Knapp observes... | |
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