... In front of it lay a large log, some thirty feet long, on which twelve or fourteen full grown natives were roosting, precisely like turkeys on a pole...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...There seems to be a certain amount of ceremony attendingthe flocking together at night for roosting purposes...
Clarence M. Weed 「Butterflies Worth Knowing」
...The pigeons rest on the upper edgeof the perch, and the sloping sides prevent their plumage from beingsoiled by birds roosting above them...
John H. Robinson 「Our Domestic Birds」
...I mean thehabit of roosting at night in large flocks, while still on itsbreeding grounds, and long before the close of the breedingseason...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...Usually knowing from what quarterthe latter will enter the covert, woodenblocks representing roosting birds are nailedto the branches of the open beeches...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...Keyser's experiment was interesting and valuable,but his sagacity fails him when interpreting theaction of the jay in roosting in an exposed placeafter it had been given its liberty...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...A door leads from the rear of this room into the roosting apartment,through which is a passage to the back side of the building, and a dooropposite, leading out into the yard...
Lewis Falley Allen 「Rural Architecture」
...Vast numbers of gulls and other birds were roosting upon it, and on the rocks were many seals; but the surf would not admit of landing...
Matthew Flinders 「A Voyage to Terra Australis」
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