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... soon as the Blue - tit utters her Iss ! so indicative of fear and terror , — which , nevertheless , she seems sometimes to do from pure love The German word is Stubenvögel , which , translated literally , is chamber - birds ; but as ...
... soon as the Blue - tit utters her Iss ! so indicative of fear and terror , — which , nevertheless , she seems sometimes to do from pure love The German word is Stubenvögel , which , translated literally , is chamber - birds ; but as ...
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... soon manifests its sympathy by a general chorus . The same is frequently indi- cated by single notes . In spring and autumn , a great variety of species may often be noticed in hedges and bushes , which seem to take great delight in the ...
... soon manifests its sympathy by a general chorus . The same is frequently indi- cated by single notes . In spring and autumn , a great variety of species may often be noticed in hedges and bushes , which seem to take great delight in the ...
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... soon as compelled to feed its young ; while , on the contrary , the Starling , the Bullfinch , and the Canary , sing throughout the year , except when dejected by moulting . It seems , in general , to be a prerogative of the males , by ...
... soon as compelled to feed its young ; while , on the contrary , the Starling , the Bullfinch , and the Canary , sing throughout the year , except when dejected by moulting . It seems , in general , to be a prerogative of the males , by ...
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... soon begins the task allotted to her sex . " The male no longer exposes himself as before , nor are his songs heard so frequently , or so loud ; but while she is searching for a secure place in which to build her nest , he is no less ...
... soon begins the task allotted to her sex . " The male no longer exposes himself as before , nor are his songs heard so frequently , or so loud ; but while she is searching for a secure place in which to build her nest , he is no less ...
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... soon commenced his love - tuned song . In two days after a female arrived , which for several days the male was continually chasing , emitting soft interrupted notes , accompanied by a chattering noise . This sort of courting lasted for ...
... soon commenced his love - tuned song . In two days after a female arrived , which for several days the male was continually chasing , emitting soft interrupted notes , accompanied by a chattering noise . This sort of courting lasted for ...
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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.