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"Flycatcher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... themselves to a proper vegetable life. There is one member of the family (Drosophyllum Lusitanicum), an almost shrubby plant, which grows on dry and sunny hills in Portugal and Morocco—which the villagers call "the flycatcher," and hang up in their cottages for the purpose—the glandular tentacles of which have wholly lost their powers of movement, if they ever had any, but which still secrete, digest, and absorb, being roused to great activity by the contact of any animal matter. A ...
— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray
... that had been cleared by burning, we met a remarkably curious hunting-party. A number of the common black and white stork were hunting for grasshoppers and other insects, but mounted upon the back of each stork was a large copper-coloured flycatcher, which, perched like a rider on his horse, kept a bright look-out for insects, which from its elevated position it could easily discover upon the ground. I watched them for some time: whenever the storks perceived a grasshopper or other winged insect, ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker |
Words linked to "Flycatcher" : wood pewee, pewit, Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus, oscine bird, kingbird, scissortail, family Muscicapidae, whistler, tyrannid, New World flycatcher, Contopus virens, pewee, oscine, firebird, peewee, Muscicapa striata, cotinga, Tyrannidae, Muscicapidae, superfamily Tyrannidae, Tyrannus tyrannus, chatterer, Muscicapa grisola, Muscivora-forficata, Sayornis phoebe, thickhead, peewit, phoebe bird, phoebe |
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