| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 394 pages
...singing ;. Their want of musical ta'ents is., however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, La which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitant of the forest.'* and it is well known the great pains Sir John Sinclair has taken, (and I hope will take,) to find out,... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 422 pages
...than finging : TSheir want of mufical talents is however amply fupplied by their wonderful fagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitant of the foreft." 14. The nigra, or black grofsbeak, is about the fize of a Canary bird : the bill is Mack,... | |
| Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 322 pages
.... chirping than singing. Their want of musical talents, however, is amply supplied by sagacity, iu which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitant of the forest. , ..: There are various kinds of serpents in India, one of the most remarkable of which, called cobra... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 910 pages
...din, but it is rather chirping than singing: their want of musical talents is, however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitants of the forest. Case of a person becoming shortsighted in advanced age, by Thomas Henry,... | |
| 1829 - 410 pages
...but it is rather chirping than singing ; their want of musical talents is, however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitants of the forest. 79 ON FALCONRY. •[Continued from page 43.] The Lanner. THIS is a Hawk... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Children - 1830 - 350 pages
...they make a lively din or chirping; their want of musical talent, however, is compensated by their sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitant of the forest. There is another species of this family, found in Madagascar, which is sometimes called the toddy bird;... | |
| Industrial arts - 1830 - 318 pages
...din, but it is rather chirping than singing; their want of musical talents is, however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitants of the forest.* THE CAT-FISH. THE author of Military Memoirs relates, " while fishing in... | |
| Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 484 pages
...but it is rather chirping than singing : their want of musical talents is, however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitants of die forest." — AK' If A'K Au KHAN, of DMi. Rcsearchcs[The great Giant Jlnuoste of... | |
| Robert Southey - 1849 - 710 pages
...but it is rather chirping than singing ; their want of musical talents is, however, amply supplied by their wonderful sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitants of the forest." — AK' HAB ALI KHAN, of Dehli. Asiatic Researches. [The great Giant Ámeoste... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1851 - 504 pages
...musical talent, however, is compensated by th * See Forbes's Oriental Memoirs, and Asiatic Researching. sagacity, in which they are not excelled by any feathered inhabitant of the forest. There is another species of this family found in Madagascar, which is sometimes called the toddy bird... | |
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