Cage and Chamber-birds: Their Natural History, Habits, Food, Diseases, Management, and Modes of Capture |
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... beautiful plumage , their agreeable song , their lively disposition , or from the desire of studying their various peculiarities . For these purposes it is especially necessary to be able to distinguish between the sexes , since , as is ...
... beautiful plumage , their agreeable song , their lively disposition , or from the desire of studying their various peculiarities . For these purposes it is especially necessary to be able to distinguish between the sexes , since , as is ...
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... beautiful song in the aviary , and thus to derive pleasure from their strains . ADDITIONAL REMARKS .- " The melody of birds , " says BRO- DERIP , in his Zoological Recreations , " finds its way to the heart of every one ; but the cause ...
... beautiful song in the aviary , and thus to derive pleasure from their strains . ADDITIONAL REMARKS .- " The melody of birds , " says BRO- DERIP , in his Zoological Recreations , " finds its way to the heart of every one ; but the cause ...
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... beautiful and the pure in nature : to him the soaring Lark will seem indeed to pour forth at heaven's gate a morning hymn of praise , and the nightingale to chant , amid the leafy woodlands , a vesper song of thankfulness : the full ...
... beautiful and the pure in nature : to him the soaring Lark will seem indeed to pour forth at heaven's gate a morning hymn of praise , and the nightingale to chant , amid the leafy woodlands , a vesper song of thankfulness : the full ...
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... beautiful corresponding differences in their plumage may be traced . The plumage upon the Raven , which braves the storm in the wilds , is very different from that of the gallinaceous or poultry races , which a slight shower drives to ...
... beautiful corresponding differences in their plumage may be traced . The plumage upon the Raven , which braves the storm in the wilds , is very different from that of the gallinaceous or poultry races , which a slight shower drives to ...
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... beautiful rust colour , with numerous black transverse stripes ; the head light reddish brown , also striped with black ; the tail similarly striped , having the same transverse streak at the end as the male . In both , the point of the ...
... beautiful rust colour , with numerous black transverse stripes ; the head light reddish brown , also striped with black ; the tail similarly striped , having the same transverse streak at the end as the male . In both , the point of the ...
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Cage and Chamber-birds; Their Natural History, Habits, Food, Diseases ... J M Bechstein,H G Adams No preview available - 2023 |
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allowed to range ashen grey Attractive Qualities.-The autumn aviary beak beautiful BECH belly Blackcap blue body bread breast breed Bullfinch Bunting cage Cage-birds Canary Carrion Crow caught Chaffinch Common Nightingale confinement dark brown Description.-This edged eggs elderberries eyes feed feet Fieldfares Finch flesh-colour flocks fond frequently Goldfinch green greyish brown ground habits head hemp seed Hoopoe House Sparrow inches in length insects iris Lark larvæ Lesser Redpole light lighter limed twigs Linnet lower MACGILLIVRAY male mandible meal worms moulting Mountain Finch neck nest Nightingale pair Parrots pen feathers perch plumage range the room rape seed reared reddish grey resembles rump rust colour season side sing Siskin sometimes song Song Thrush Sparrow species spotted spring Stock Dove stripe tail feathers tail measures throat Thrush Thuringia tinged tipped trees universal paste whitish wild wing coverts winter woods yellow Yellowhammer yellowish young birds
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Page 312 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Page 312 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below.