 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1831 - 382 pages
...darting among the flock, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of...them to bound up in the air, showing, at the same tune, the white spot on the croup dilated by the effort, and closing again in their descent, and producing... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1832 - 390 pages
...darting among the flock, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of...and their anxiety to escape impels them to bound up m the air, showing, at the same time, the white spot on the croup dilated by the effort, and closing... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - Africa - 1833 - 394 pages
...darting among the flock, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of...them to bound up in the air, showing, at the same tune, the white spot on the croup dilated by the effort, and closing again in their descent, and producing... | |
 | Robert Huish - Adams, Robert - 1836 - 824 pages
...amongst the flocks, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of...pressed against each other, and their anxiety to escape compels them to bound up in the air, showing at the same time the white spot on the croup, dilated... | |
 | Periodicals - 1841 - 272 pages
...countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of flight, the animals are pressed against each other, and their anxiety...bound up in the air, showing at the same time the beautiful white mark round the hips. According to Mr. Burchell, it is only occasionally that" the spring-boks... | |
 | Child rearing - 1844 - 384 pages
...principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread n> piilly and open the means of flight, they are pressed against...which they have obtained the name of Springer and Showy-bock." — Griffith's Ammo], Kingdom, vol. iv. p. 209. The kevel (A., kmdla.) is nearly all ied... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1856 - 724 pages
...darting among the flock, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly, and open the means of...the same time the white spot on the croup dilated oy Ihr efltirt, and closing again in their descent, and producing that beautiful effect from which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1857 - 712 pages
...darting among the dock, but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly, and open the means of...impels them to bound up in the air, showing at the same lime the white spot on the croup dilated by the effort, and closing again in their descent, and producing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly, and open the means of Might, they are pressed against each other, and their anxiety...which they have obtained the name of springer and sho"y bok." In the first Tolume of the ' Menageries,' in the ' Lil>rary of Entertaining Knowledge,*... | |
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... but principally when the herds are assembled in countless multitudes, so that an alarm cannot spread rapidly and open the means of flight, they are pressed against each other, and their anxiety to escape impels them to bound up in the air, showing,... 