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... taken by some of my readers in the feathered creation , but has also been the means of directing the attention of many others to the observation and love of natural objects . It is my earnest wish , that in its new form , this book may ...
... taken by some of my readers in the feathered creation , but has also been the means of directing the attention of many others to the observation and love of natural objects . It is my earnest wish , that in its new form , this book may ...
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... spontaneously acquire in the aviary , or of passages which have been purposely performed in their hearing on a flute or bird - organ . Almost all singing 4 birds , which have been taken from the nest B 2 VOICE AND SONG . 3.
... spontaneously acquire in the aviary , or of passages which have been purposely performed in their hearing on a flute or bird - organ . Almost all singing 4 birds , which have been taken from the nest B 2 VOICE AND SONG . 3.
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... taken from the nest when very young , are able to retain portions of such tunes as are daily played or whistled in their presence ; but only a few , particularly dis- tinguished for docility , entirely forsake and forget their natural ...
... taken from the nest when very young , are able to retain portions of such tunes as are daily played or whistled in their presence ; but only a few , particularly dis- tinguished for docility , entirely forsake and forget their natural ...
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... taken from the nest before they have even learned to chirp ; and if thus brought up to the food and the temperature of the aviary , would be able neither to sustain life , nor to migrate in winter . And thirdly , if such birds were ...
... taken from the nest before they have even learned to chirp ; and if thus brought up to the food and the temperature of the aviary , would be able neither to sustain life , nor to migrate in winter . And thirdly , if such birds were ...
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... taken great pains to spell out the different notes of the nightingale , and set them down in their proper order of sequence , dividing them into their separate strains , or strophes ; but let any lover of the dulcet jargoning of that ...
... taken great pains to spell out the different notes of the nightingale , and set them down in their proper order of sequence , dividing them into their separate strains , or strophes ; but let any lover of the dulcet jargoning of that ...
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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.