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... head are designed to answer these questions . Food . Their food , which should resemble as closely as possible their natural nourishment , is one of the particulars most carefully to be attended to in the management of Cage- birds . I ...
... head are designed to answer these questions . Food . Their food , which should resemble as closely as possible their natural nourishment , is one of the particulars most carefully to be attended to in the management of Cage- birds . I ...
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... head ; and a frequent gasping , as if for breath . 2. COLD , OR RHEUM . For this disease , which shows itself by frequent sneezings and shaking of the head , I know no better remedy - especially if the bird be valuable , and it is ...
... head ; and a frequent gasping , as if for breath . 2. COLD , OR RHEUM . For this disease , which shows itself by frequent sneezings and shaking of the head , I know no better remedy - especially if the bird be valuable , and it is ...
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... head and the tail are light grey , the under part of the latter being marked with a broad black stripe ; the back and the wing coverts a red brick colour with black spots ; the under part of the body a rust rose colour with longitudinal ...
... head and the tail are light grey , the under part of the latter being marked with a broad black stripe ; the back and the wing coverts a red brick colour with black spots ; the under part of the body a rust rose colour with longitudinal ...
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... head is black , and with it is connected a band of the same colour , running between the eyes , and behind the ears . back of the head and the neck , are a beautiful reddish brown ; the upper part of the back , brownish black ; the ...
... head is black , and with it is connected a band of the same colour , running between the eyes , and behind the ears . back of the head and the neck , are a beautiful reddish brown ; the upper part of the back , brownish black ; the ...
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... head for a stone , and dropping an oyster on it in order to break the shell . One of these was seen by the celebrated WATT . A crow caught up a crab , rose with it to a considerable height , dropped it , not on the head of a modern ...
... head for a stone , and dropping an oyster on it in order to break the shell . One of these was seen by the celebrated WATT . A crow caught up a crab , rose with it to a considerable height , dropped it , not on the head of a modern ...
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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.