10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOCUST BIRD»
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1
Calmet's Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible: Scripture ...
294. smurmur, locust bird. This bird is about the size of a starling ; the bill and
legs are black ; the plumage on the body is of a flesh colour ; that of the head,
neck, wings, and tail, black. The locust bird appears at Aleppo in June, about the
time ...
Augustin Calmet, Charles Taylor, Edward Wells, 1814
2
Encyclopaedic dictionary of the Bible
410) says the locust-bird is about the size of a starling; in another place (p. 420)
he compares It In rize to a swallow. The bird Is about eight Inches and a ball In
length. Yarrell (Brit. Birdt, ii. 61, 2nd ed.) says " it is held sacred at Aleppo
because ...
William George Smith, John Mee Fuller
3
The
Locust Plague and Its Suppression
The locust-bird. — Darwin supports the theory that there are periods when the
locusts have the upper hand, lasting until the great increase of the locust-bird (
due to an abundant supply of food) gives the latter the advantage. When locusts ...
4
New International Encyclopedia
For the latter deed she was rewarded by Nero, but was executed under the
Emperor Galba. Consult Juvenal, i, 71, and the editors there. LOCUST BIRD. A
bird notable for feeding upon locusts, especially a South African grackle (
Creatophora ...
5
Scripture natural history [by M.F. Maude].
green, with wings just sprouting; they entirely resembled grasshoppers, and
hopped briskly away from our path." — Robinson's Researches, vol. ii. p. 625.
LOCUST-BIRD. " The natural enemy of the locust is the bird Semer- mer, which is
of the ...
6
The New International Encyclopædia
For the latter deed she was rewarded by Nero, but was executed under the
Emperor Galba. LOCUST-BIRD. A bird notable for feeding upon locusts;
especially a South African grakle (Creatophora carunculata). In the same region
a white stork ...
7
The New international encyclopaedia
71, and the editors there, LOCUST BIRD. A bird notable for feeding upon locusts,
especially a South African graekle {Creatophora carunculata) . In the same
region a white stork is called "great" locust bird, and one of the pratincoles {
Glareola ...
Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams, 1918
8
Scripture illustrated by means of natural Science: in ...
neck, wine?, and tail, black. The locust-bird appears at Aleppo in June, about the
time the white mulberries are ripe; and it feeds on that fruit, at a time when no
locusts are to be found." — Dr. Rus- SEL's Aleppo, p. 205. Tavrrnier tells us, p.
147.
9
The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope
... is liable to fine or imprisonment. The attention of Field-oornets, Headmen and
of farmers generally is drawn to this matter, and it is urgently desired that
everyone will do his best to see that the Locust bird is not shot or molested in any
way.
Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture, 1904
I am informed the reason why the stark has been inserted in this Clause is that
this year when enormous swarms of locusts have been in the country they have
been followed up not only by the ordinary locust bird, but by what is Enown as the
...
Orange River Colony. Legislative Council, 1905
