and the warm sun shone upon us.” Then she laid her head on the bird’s breast, but she was alarmed immediately, for it seemed as if something inside the bird went “thump31, thump.” It was the bird’s heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with the cold, and the warmth...
her head on the bird's breast, but she was alarmed immediately, for it seemed as if something inside the bird went "thump, thump." It was the bird's heart; he was not really dead, only benumbed with the cold, and the warmth had restored him to life. In autumn, all the swallows ...
Then she laid her head close up to the bird's breast, but was quite startled at a sound, as if something wasthumping inside it, it was the bird's heart, it was not dead but lay in a swoon, and now that it had been warmed it began to revive....
The red-backed button quail (T. maculosa) is its counterpart in the Australo-Papuan region. The Andalusian hemipode, 15 cm (6 in.) long, has streaked, reddish-gray upperparts and pale underparts with an orange breast patch and black-spotted sides. The sexes look much alike. In the ...