 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1789 - 522 pages
...all their leifurc time in ftnking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful fkirmifh ; and, when they move from one place to another, frequently...betides them, they are fcratching themfelves with one foot, and thus lofe the center of gravity. Rooks fometimes dive and tumble in a frolickfome manner... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1821 - 444 pages
...they spend all their leisure time in diving and cuffing at each other on the wing in a playful manner; and, when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, as if about to fall to the ground. "When this accident happens, they are scratching themselves with... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...leisure tune in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish ; and when thev move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and' seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing, in a kind of playful skirmish; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1831 - 510 pages
...all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish ; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | T Forster - 1832 - 144 pages
...all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and, when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...all their leisure time m striking and cuffing each other on the wing, in a kind of playful skirmish ; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | Gilbert White - Animals - 1833 - 338 pages
...all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 640 pages
...all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish ; and when they move from one place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...striking and cuffing each other on tie wing in a kind of playful skirmish ; and when they move from oat place to another, frequently turn on their backs with a loud croak, and seem to be falling to the ground. When this odd gesture betides them, they are scratching themselves... | |
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There is a peculiarity belonging to ravens that must draw the attention even of the most incurious— they spend all their leisure time in striking and cuffing each other on the wing in a kind of playful skirmish; and when they move from one place to... 
