Crested Sentence Examples

As dawn had crested, he felt wearied yet energized.

The lapwing's conspicuous crest seems to have been the cause of a common blunder among English writers of the middle ages, who translated the Latin word Upupa, property hoopoe, by lapwing, as being the crested bird with which they were best acquainted.

No contrast, for instance, can be greater than that between the wide elevated moors of the eastern Grampians, and the crested ridges of western Inverness-shire and Argyllshire - Loch Hourn, Glen Nevis, Glencoe - or that between the broad uplands of Peeblesshire and the precipitous heights of Galloway.

A "crested" furrow is obtained by the use of a share, the wing of which is set at a higher altitude than the point, but this type of furrow is less generally found than the "rectangular" form obtained by a level-edged share, which leaves a flat bottom.

The Park consists of about 265 acres of undulating land with natural woods and rocks, traversed by a gorge cut by Rock Creek, a tributary of the Potomac. The river and gorge extend into the country far beyond the Park, and in addition to the animals that have been introduced, there are many wild creatures living in their native freedom, such as musk rats in the creek, grey squirrels, crested cardinals and turkey buzzards.

On the upper verge of the pine forests, or in the scrubby vegetation just beyond, the following are not uncommon - black woodpecker (Picus martius), ring-ousel (Turdus torquatus), Bonelli's warbler (Phylloscopus Bonellii), crested tit (Parus cristatus), citril finch (Citrinella alpina), siskin (Chrysomitris spinus), crossbill (Loxia curvirostra), nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes), blackcock (Tetrao tetrix), and the alpine varieties of the marsh-tit (Parus palustris, borealis) and tree-creeper (Certhia familiaris, costae).

Crested Dog's-tail Festuca duriuscula - Hard Fescue Festuca ovina - Sheep's Fescue .

A considerable number of African and Amazonian parrots, Bengal parroquets, four species of white and rose crested cockatoos, and two species of crimson lories, remained at large for many years.

The cirripede, which has an elastic peduncle, a crested capitulum, but no valves, and the first cirrhi longer than the rest, should stand near Eremolepas, the name given by Weltner in place of the preoccupied Gymnolepas (Aurivillius).

The "crested" or "cock's comb" barytes occurs as rounded aggregations of thin lamellar crystals.

One sort of imamba, named by the natives " indhlondhlo," is crested, and its body is of a bright flame colour.

In operation the coulter makes a perpendicular cut separating the furrow-slice which is divided from the "sole" of the furrow Crested Furrow.

Besides these large crested species, there are several smaller species without crests in north-east India, and the Malay region from Nepal to Borneo.

Large numbers of grebes - great crested, eared, and little, - gulls and pelicans frequent the lake.

Farther to the south-west, in the shires of Perth, Inverness and Argyll, they give place to the ordinary hummocky crested ridges of Highland scenery, which, however, in Ben Nevis and Aonach Beg reach a height of over 4000 ft.

One of the best game-birds of the forest is the "crested curassow" (Crax alector), sometimes weighing 12 lb, which feeds on arboreal fruits and rarely comes to the ground.

There are various cultivated forms - cristata has the ends of the fronds and the pinnae finely crested, and corymbifera has curiously forked and crested fronds.

These teeth sometimes form a regular fringe round the margin, and the petal becomes fimbriated, as in the pink; or laciniated, as in Lychnis Flos-cuculi; or crested, as in Polygala.

This elevated plateau extends from Dry's Bluff in the north to the Denison Range in the south-west, and although often receding at points adjacent to the sources of the principal rivers, invariably presents a bold crested front to the north, west and east.

Harpy and Crested Eagles hunt here and we'll see colonies of leafcutter ants and myriad butterflies.

The outstanding wildlife interest includes aspen, juniper, capercaillie, red squirrel, crested tit, blood red slave maker ants and otter.

Experimental studies of ornaments in crested auklets (Alaska) and Australian finches, with reference to mate choice and species isolation.

On previous visits we have also seen both Crested Quail-dove and Jamaican blackbird relatively easily here.

Red backed hawks and crested caracara competed for perches in the few yew trees I was camping in the shelter of.

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We 've crested the hill and are now gliding downhill.

Later in the morning 8 great crested grebes and 6 red-throated divers were present feeding offshore.

The fens are home to the nationally rare crested buckler fern.

On deeper water great crested and little grebes breed, breeding duck include gadwall and tufted duck.

From the hide, which overlooks Ormesby Little Broad, we watched the birds including the crested grebe.

A striking water bird that is seen on all the ponds all year round is the great crested grebe.

Six slavonian grebe were accompanied by single black-necked and great crested grebe.

Bird highlights here included streaked flycatcher, white shouldered tanager, crested guan and orange collared manakin.

The remaining birds were spotted during various trips including the crested lark at a busy roundabout near the center of La Rochelle.

A group of wild Buton macaques were compared to a group of captive Sulawesi crested macaques housed at Paignton zoo.

These included our only views of Sulawesi crested myna.

There is a pond and wildlife area which attracts various species including crested newts.

The endangered and protected great crested newts had made the abandoned holiday camp their home.

Great crested newts are best suited to ponds which are slightly alkaline.

In bright sunshine we were able to watch Snowy Sheathbills, Dolphin Gulls, Crested Ducks and Blackish oystercatchers at our leisure.

These include green peafowl, lesser fishing eagle, red-headed vulture and crested kingfisher.

General characteristics There are four other species of crested porcupine, the Cape porcupine, Himalayan porcupine, Indian porcupine and Malayan porcupine.

We birded around San Isidro on our own the next morning, turning up both Crested and Golden-headed quetzals.

Saw a very beautiful crested eagle owl, and later saw a white-bellied sea eagle.

A Great Crested Tern was seen as was a distant shearwater which we set off after in hot pursuit but never relocated.

Spittle Mere also has a breeding colony of crested newts while the hawthorn scrub provides cover for nesting songbirds.

At other times of the year the pools and pumping stations were filled to the brim with Great Crested Newts.

The call of the Crested Tit is a distinctive little trill, and you should soon be picking them up all over the place!

The head is large and crested with a short beak, leaf type comb, muffled face, small rounded wattles and earlobes.

Closely related to this bird is another first described by Linnaeus as a species of Parra (see Jacana), to which group it certainly does not belong, but separated therefrom by Illiger to form the genus Chauna, and now known as C. chavaria, very generally in English as the " Crested Screamer," a name which was first bestowed on the Seriema.

We birded around San Isidro on our own the next morning, turning up both Crested and Golden-headed Quetzals.

The call of the Crested Tit is a distinctive little trill, and you should soon be picking them up all over the place !

I studied sequences of individual vigilance behavior of crested terns during which flock size changes occurred.

So, it seems that the girl from Crested Butte, Colorado, raised in a Christian home is taking off her top to make a buck.

The winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest for the last three years was a Chinese Crested Hairless named Sam.

As a purebred Chinese Crested Hairless, Sam had no hair except for a wispy tuft on top of his head.

Archie, a Chinese Crested from Arizona was chosen as the 2006 winner.

In a class all by himself is Sam, the rescued Chinese Crested who came to worldwide fame as winner of the World's Ugliest Dog Contest in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

Since their debut record Rascal Flatts in 2000, this pop-country power trio has crested the charts and enjoyed unprecedented success.

The Maidstone Crested Sport Coat is done in cotton chino, making it durable to wear.

Once the coaster crested the lift hill, there was virtually no straight track and it subjected riders to nearly four times the force of gravity.

It wasn't until dawn crested the horizon that he smelled the unmistakable scent of blood.

The marble he saw came into view as he crested the hill in the center of the orchard.

In some of those birds which have a peculiarly harsh or trumpeting voice, the trachea is lengthened, forming loops which lie subcutaneously (capercally, curassow), or it enters and dilates the symphysis of the furcula (crested guineafowl); or, e.g.

The intensity of her emotion faded as she crested the hill, but it didn't completely disappear.

She looked around, astounded by the beauty of the orchard, then realized she'd lose sight of Dustin once he crested the hill in the center of the orchard.