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Page 60
... trees . In such situations its nest may be found . If allowed to be at liberty in a room , no other bird must be suffered to come near , as the owl would kill it . It is best hung before a window in a large kind of Quail's cage , which ...
... trees . In such situations its nest may be found . If allowed to be at liberty in a room , no other bird must be suffered to come near , as the owl would kill it . It is best hung before a window in a large kind of Quail's cage , which ...
Page 63
... trees . The female lays five to seven greenish eggs , often having olive green , or a few violet grey spots at the ... tree frog . It is to be regretted that he sings only in pairing - time , -from March to May , and that the song is ...
... trees . The female lays five to seven greenish eggs , often having olive green , or a few violet grey spots at the ... tree frog . It is to be regretted that he sings only in pairing - time , -from March to May , and that the song is ...
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... trees , and prefer- ring the oak . The nest is fixed in the fork of a projecting branch , and is composed on the outside of sticks and wool , mixed with white moss from the bodies of the trees , and lined with fine grass and wool . Eggs ...
... trees , and prefer- ring the oak . The nest is fixed in the fork of a projecting branch , and is composed on the outside of sticks and wool , mixed with white moss from the bodies of the trees , and lined with fine grass and wool . Eggs ...
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... trees , whose trunks had been de- nuded by time of all their lower branches , my attention was sud- denly arrested by the never - to - be - mistaken croak of a Raven , and the loud chattering of a flock of Jackdaws . " I soon perceived ...
... trees , whose trunks had been de- nuded by time of all their lower branches , my attention was sud- denly arrested by the never - to - be - mistaken croak of a Raven , and the loud chattering of a flock of Jackdaws . " I soon perceived ...
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... trees , but they prefer the neighbourhood of rich countries , and hence they are not found in the Highlands . They prowl about , even to the doors of the houses , and into the poultry - yards , and are voracious devourers of eggs ...
... trees , but they prefer the neighbourhood of rich countries , and hence they are not found in the Highlands . They prowl about , even to the doors of the houses , and into the poultry - yards , and are voracious devourers of eggs ...
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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.