 ... fruits. As day dawned and the light crept over mountain and forest, the ' veha,' a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across the grass, picking up insects here and there, but on the slightest...  In Stevenson's Samoa - Strana 26autor/autoři: Marie Fraser - 1895 - 190 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1894 - 852 str.
...light crept over mountain and forest, the veha, a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across...busy among the blossoms of the mummy apple, and the tuia, a darkplumaged starling, joined in with mellow voice. Among the forest trees many species of... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 828 str.
...light crept over mountain and forest, the ' veha,' a little rail with mottled black and brown plumage, would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across...busy among the blossoms of the mummy apple, and the 'tuia,' a dark-plumaged starling, joined in with mellow voice. Among the forest trees many species... | |
 | Charles Samuel Greene - 1896 - 126 str.
...would emerge from the bushes and warily creep across the grass, picking up insects here and there . . . Then, as the sun flashed his first beams on dew-laden tree and flower, the clear, liquid note 6f the " jao " (wattled honey-eater) was heard, r.nd he and his mate might be seen busy among the blossoms... | |
 | 1899 - 492 str.
...bushes and warily creep across the grass picking up insects here and there. Then, as the sun flashes his first beams on dew-laden tree and flower, the clear liquid note of the 'jao' (wattled honey eater) was heard, and he and his mate might be seen busy among the blossoms of the mummy apple;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 684 str.
...squat close to the ground — always near a brown leaf or a stone, and was then as invisible as fur own ptarmigan under similar conditions. Then as the...busy among the blossoms of the mummy apple, and the 'tuia,' a dark-plumaged starling, joined in with mellow voice. Among the forest trees many species... | |
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