 | William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pages
...of Norway, Iceland, and Greenland. In Iceland the Eider Ducks generally build their nests on little islands, not far from the shore, and sometimes even...two females will lay their eggs in the same nest, and they always agree remarkably well together. As long as the female is sitting, the male continues... | |
 | 1816 - 386 pages
...— that of two females occupying only one nest : — " The Eider birds build their nests on little islands not far from the shore, and sometimes even...the dwellings of the natives, who treat them with such kindness and circumspection as to make them quite tame. In the beginning of June they lay five... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...floating on the surface, obliged to take care of themselves. They are seldom seen afterwards on land. In Iceland the Eider Ducks generally build their nests...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. From these birds is produced the soft down so well known by the name of eider, or edder down, which... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...numbers) a single Indian will kill two hundred of these birds. In Iceland, 'the Eider Ducks generally form their nests on small islands not far from the shore...tame. Sometimes two females will lay their eggs in die same nest, in which case they always agree remarkably well. • DESCHIPTIO.V. This species is about... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...The eggs are usually four, of a pale olive green, and rather larger than those of a common duct About Iceland, the eider ducks generally build their nests...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. Two females will sometimes ky their eggs in the same nest, in which case they always agree remarkably... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...floating on the surface, obliged to take care of themselves. They are seldom seen afterwards on land. In Iceland the Eider Ducks generally build their nests...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. From these birds is produced the soft down so well known by the name of eider, or edder down, which... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 pages
...repeated, thej leave the place, and return to it no more. The eider birds build their nests on little islands, not far from the shore, and sometimes even...the dwellings of the natives, who treat them with such kindness and ciivumtpection as to make them quite tame. In the beginning of June they lay five... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...floating on the surface, obliged to take care of themselves. They are seldom seen afterwards on land. In Iceland, the eider ducks generally build their...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. From these birds is produced the soft down, so well known by the name of eider, or edder down, which... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...floating on the surface, obliged to take care of themselves. They are seldom seen afterwards on land. In Iceland, the eider ducks generally build their...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. From these birds is produced the soft down, so well known by the name of the eider, or edder down,... | |
 | 1838 - 944 pages
...longer than those of a common duck. About Iceland the eider duck generally build their nests on smalt islands not far from the shore, and sometimes even...attention and kindness as to render them nearly tame. Two females will sometimes lay their eggs in the same nest, in which case they always agree remarkably... | |
| |
... she takes them on her back, and swims a few yards with them, when she dives; and the young ones are left floating on the surface, obliged to take care of themselves. They are seldom seen afterwards on land. In Iceland the Eider Ducks generally build... 
