...In the depths of them are quiet and deep pools, frequented by various aquatic birds, such as geese, ducks, snipes, widgeons, kingfishers and ibis, cranes and storks, and pelicans...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...Here, along the shore, we saw thousands of the water-fowl already familiar to us, as well as such strangers as gaudy kingfishers, ibises, and rosy flamingoes...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Let him be taught in precise terms that he must not rob birds' nests, and that he must not shoot song-birds, woodpeckers and kingfishers with a 22-calibre rifle, or any other gun...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...But outside of the town I saw no kingfishers and no rare species at all, and comparatively few birds of any kind...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...Practical naturalists may say that kingfishers would be far more difficult to procure than other birds, and that it would be almost impossible to convey them to England...
W. H. Hudson 「Birds in Town and Village」
...Let it suffice that the familiar bird with wings of two shadesof blue is not a jay, nor even one of the Corviniæ, but a blood relationof the kingfishers and bee-eaters...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...Already four little baby kingfishers have pecked their way out of thewhite shells...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...So those unhappy mortals became the first kingfishers, happy at last inbeing reunited...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Bank-mynas, white-breasted kingfishers, bee-eaters and a fewbelated sand-martins are nesting in sandbanks in cavities whichthey themselves have excavated...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Happily the Kingfishers are again on the increasein our country...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...So fatal is this net when skilfully set, that I know oneman who adds several pounds to his income in the course of a yearby taking kingfishers in this manner...
Montagu Browne 「Practical Taxidermy」
...But I have yet to hear of a robin building a nest likea brown thrasher, or of an oriole building a nest likea robin, or of kingfishers drilling for grubs in a tree...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...As with the kingfishers and sheldrakes,each pair of birds seem to have their own pond or portion; but by whatold law of the waters they find and stake their claim is yet to bediscovered...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...When these things were taken out of thehouse a large number of crickets were taken out too,and then was the chance for the Kingfishers (Halcyonsanctus) which darted down and snapped them up...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
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