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SUN-BIRD, a name more or less in use for many years,1 and now generally accepted as that of a group of over 100 species of small birds, but when or by whom it was first applied is uncertain. Those known to the older naturalists were for a long while referred t ...

SUN-BITTERN, the Eurypyga helias of ornithology, a bird that has long exercised systematists; and one whose proper place can scarcely yet be said to have been determined to everybody's satisfaction. According to Pallas, who in 1781 gave (N. nordl. Beytrage,\o\ ...

SUGAR-BIRD, the English name commonly given in the West India Islands to the various members of the genus Certhiola, (belonging to the Passerine family Coerebidae1) for their habit of frequenting the curing-houses where sugar is kept, apparently attracted thit ...

SUN COPYING, or PHOTO COPYING, the name given to that branch of photographic contact printing which is carried out without the aid of a camera-made negative. It is now used very extensively for copying documents, especially the plans of architects and engineer ...

... are conceived in animal form. (See Goat, below.) (viii.) The ominous animal or bird may develop into a deity. (See Hawk, below.) (ix.) It is commonly assumed that the animals associated with certain deities are sacred because the god was originally theriomorp ...

... tance, speaks of boughs shaken by the wind, but not so violently as to make the birds forgo their Art — " Non per6 dal lor esser dritto sparte Tanto, che gl' augeiletti per le cime Lasciasser d' operar ogni lor arte." And Fontenelle, speaking in the language n ...

... incandescent bodies are of two classes: stars and nebulae. Among the stars our sun is to be included, as it has no properties which distinguish it from the great mass of stars except our proximity to it. The stars are supposed to be generally spherical, like ...

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... n a similarity of opinions. Emerson was a sweet-tempered Carlyle, living in the sunshine. Carlyle was a militant Emerson, moving amid thunderclouds. The things that each most admired in the other were selfreliance, directness, moral courage. A passage in Emers ...

... became a skilled and enthusiastic collector, particularly of African plants and birds. When he was four-and-twenty he determined to seek his fortunes abroad, and made his way to Turkey, where, after practising medicine on his own account for a short time, he w ...

... aves in Burnet, Williamson, Lampasas, Gillespie and other counties. The mocking-bird is the principal song bird and it and the lark-sparrow are common throughout the state. The snowy heron is a rare plume bird seen occasionally along the coast. The scissor-tai ...

... (cf. Lat. lorreo, tostus), signifying the produce of the earth " baked " by the sun. Essentially an agricultural festival, the Thargelia included a purifying and expiatory ceremony. While the people offered the first-fruits of the earth to the god in token of ...

... eatre, see Dr Cecil Brodmeier, Die Shakespeare-Biihne nach den alten Buhneranweisungen (Weimar, 1904); Dr Paul Monkemeyer, Prolegomena einer Darstellung der Englischen Volksbiihne zur Elizabeth und Stuart Zeit (Leipzig, 1905); Dr Richard Wegener, Die Buhnenein ...

... explain how Godhead and manhood came together in unity. Fact and theory sprang asunder; for theory had done its utmost, and was baffled. Another admission ought to be made. Western contributions to the prolonged debate constantly tended to take the form of ass ...

... always aroused in me the greatest interest. I rejoice from my heart that our misunderstanding has come to an end. I hope to be in the province of Orel this summer, and then we shall meet. I send you my best wishes, and once more grasp your hand in friendship. ...

... aw) I. Kinderhook or Chouteau 7. Maxville 6. Logan 5. Black Hand 4. Cuyahoga 3. Sunbury 2. Berea grit I. Bedford 2. Mauch Chunk I. Pocono 3. Mauch Chunk 2. Greenbrier I. Pocono In the interior the Kinderhook series has a distribution similar to that of the Dev ...

... ers; the sand-hill crane is less common than formerly. A few varieties of shore birds breed here, as the Western willet, the Bartramian sandpiper, and the longbilled curlew. Gambel's partridge is resident in the southern part of the state, and the sage-hen and ...

... wellings each on its separate islet, scattered, as Cassiodorus 1 says, like sea-birds' nests over the face of the waters. Some of the islets were still uninhabited, covered with a dense low growth which served as cover for game and even for wolves. With the de ...

... ments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves. Chief Towns. — The chief towns are Sao Paulo de Loanda, the capital, Kabinda, Benguella and Mossamedes (q.v.). Lobito, a little north of Beng ...

... . Seal Island and Penguin Island are in the bay, Ichaboe, Mercury, and Hollam's Bird islands are to the north; Halifax, Long, Possession, Albatross, Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south. On these islands are guano deposits; the most valu ...

... spectrum. He announced the existence of hydrogen, among other elements, in the sun's atmosphere in 1862, and in 1868 published his great map of the normal solar spectrum which long remained authoritative in questions of wave-length, although his measurements ...

... d Anhalt-Bernburg, and comprising all the various Anhalt territories which were sundered apart in 1603. The country now known as Anhalt consists of two larger portions — Eastern and Western Anhalt, separated by the interposition of a part of Prussian Saxony — ...

... battle on the island of Riigen (November 16) . His conduct of the siege of Stralsund which followed was equally skilful,and the great results of the war to Prussia were largely to be attributed to his leadership in the campaign. In the years of peace,and espec ...

... s. The common use of the word animal as the equivalent of mammal, as opposed to bird or reptile or fish, is erroneous. The classification of the animal kingdom is dealt with in the article ZOOLOGY. (P. C. M.)

... the temperature of the latter. Those animals high in the scale of evolution, as birds and mammals, have a high temperature almost constant and independent of that of the surrounding air, whereas among the lower animals there is much variation of body temperatu ...

... has no meaning for the savage. The river speeding on its course to the sea, the sun and moon, if not the stars also, on their never-ceasing daily round, the lightning, fire, the wind, the sea, all are in motion and therefore animate; but the savage does not st ...

... est of St Filippo Neri he composed a number of Laudi, or hymns of praise, to be sung after sermon time, which have given him an accidental prominence in musical history, since their performance in St Filippo's Oratory eventually gave rite (on the disruption of ...

... ts mouth in the Kleines HafT, and 53 m. N.W. of Stettin, by the railway to Stralsund. Pop. (1900) 14,602. The fortifications of Anklam were dismantled in 1762 and have not since been restored, although the old walls are still standing; formerly, however, it wa ...

ANTHELION (late Gr. dvftjXios, opposite the sun), the luminous ring or halo sometimes seen in Alpine or polar regions surrounding the shadow of the head of an observer cast upon a bank of cloud or mist. The halo diminishes in brightness from the centre outward ...

... mily 6. POCILLOPORIDAE. — Colonial branching aporose corals, with small calices sunk in the coenenchyme. Tabulae present, and two larger septa, an axial and abaxial, are always present, with traces of ten smaller septa. Typical genera — Pocillopora, Lamarck. S ...

... ,H, (NO,),-OH, which crystallizes in needles, melting at 138° C. On exposure to sunlight a solution of anthracene in benzene or xylrne deposits para-anthracene (CuHio)i, which melts at 244° C. and passes back into the ordinary form. Chlorine and bromine form b ...

ANTISTROPHE, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west. It is of the nature of a reply, and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in Gray's od ...

... an alliance with the pirates, but was totally defeated, most of his ships being sunk. Diodorus Siculus (xl. i) states that he only saved himself by a disgraceful treaty. He died soon afterwards (72-71) in Crete. All authorities are agreed as to his avarice and ...

... 1855). '53 the highest points arc Knocklayd (1605 ft.), Slieveanorra (1676), TrosUn (1817), Slcmish (1457), and Divis (1367). The inland slope is gradual, but on the northern shore the range terminates in abrupt and almost perpendicular declivities, and here, ...

... as his different system. The principal authorities are: — Waitz, Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichle, 3rd ed. vol. ii. pp. 335 et seq.; Brunner, Deutsche Rechtsgeschichle, vol. ii. p. 97 et seq. ; Fustel de Coulanges, La Monarchic franque, p. 80 et seq. ; Maxime De ...

... rp had reached the lowest point of its fortunes in 1800, and its population had sunk under 40,000, when Napoleon, realizing its strategical importance, assigned two millions for the construction of two docks and a mole. One other incident in the chequered hist ...

... nsidered to be son of Osiris by Nephthys; earlier perhaps he was son of Re, the sun-god. In the and century A. D. his aid was " compelled " by the magicians and necromancers to fetch the gods and entertain them with food (especially in the ceremony of gazing i ...

... us short stories and tales of village life collected under the title Wolken und Sunn'schein (1888). Anzengruber's collected works, with a biography, were published in 10 vols. in 1890 (3rd ed. 1897) ; his correspondence has been edited by A. Bettelheim (1902). ...

... preface to a small work of J. W. Camerer, entitled Apollonii Pergaei quae super sunt, ac maxime Lemmata Pap pi in has Libras, cum Observationibus, ffc. (Gothae, 1795, 8vo). 5th. De Inclinationibus had for its object to insert a straight line of a given length, ...

... soning, of status epilepticus, of uraemia or of head injury. The sudden coma of sunstroke and heat-stroke might be included, although owing to the suddenness with which a person may be struck down, the term heal apoplexy is frequently used, and, from an etymol ...