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... built on a harrow Concealment of the nest Nest of the blackbird The baker - bird of America CHAPTER VII , -CARPENTER - BIRDS . The term carpenter applied to several species The toucan • The tomtit hews out holes to nestle in The wryneck ...
... built on a harrow Concealment of the nest Nest of the blackbird The baker - bird of America CHAPTER VII , -CARPENTER - BIRDS . The term carpenter applied to several species The toucan • The tomtit hews out holes to nestle in The wryneck ...
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... built with fish - spawn · 292 Account by Sir George Staunton • 293 Rites of the Javanese , in reference to these nests 294 Marsden's opinion of their composition 295 Account by Mr. Crawfurd ib . Physiological researches of Sir E. Home ...
... built with fish - spawn · 292 Account by Sir George Staunton • 293 Rites of the Javanese , in reference to these nests 294 Marsden's opinion of their composition 295 Account by Mr. Crawfurd ib . Physiological researches of Sir E. Home ...
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... built on the ground , among the grass of the salt marshes , pretty well towards the land or cul- tivated fields , and are composed of wet rushes and coarse grass , forming a slight hollow or cavity in a tussock . This nest is gradually ...
... built on the ground , among the grass of the salt marshes , pretty well towards the land or cul- tivated fields , and are composed of wet rushes and coarse grass , forming a slight hollow or cavity in a tussock . This nest is gradually ...
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... built their nest in a stable , and the female laid eggs in the nest , and was about to brood them . Some days afterwards the people saw the female still sitting on the eggs ; but the male , flying about the nest , and sometimes settling ...
... built their nest in a stable , and the female laid eggs in the nest , and was about to brood them . Some days afterwards the people saw the female still sitting on the eggs ; but the male , flying about the nest , and sometimes settling ...
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... built their nest on a projecting beam under the eaves , about six or seven feet from the ground . At the bottom of the mountain , in a large barn belong- ing to the tavern there , I counted upwards of twenty nests , all seemingly ...
... built their nest on a projecting beam under the eaves , about six or seven feet from the ground . At the bottom of the mountain , in a large barn belong- ing to the tavern there , I counted upwards of twenty nests , all seemingly ...
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Page 288 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Page 287 - And hark ! the Nightingale begins its song, " Most musical, most melancholy"* bird ! A melancholy bird ? Oh ! idle thought ! In nature there is nothing melancholy. But some night-wandering man, whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch ! filled all things with himself And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain...
Page 48 - Son of man, put forth a riddle, and speak a parable unto the house of Israel ; and say, Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, longwinged, full of feathers, which had divers colours, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar...
Page 17 - I saw it distinctly more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.
Page 288 - But never elsewhere in one place I knew So many nightingales ; and far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove, They answer and provoke each other's song, With skirmish and capricious passagings, And murmurs musical and swift jug jug, And one low piping sound more sweet than all...
Page 330 - ... together on a trial of skill, each striving to produce his utmost effect, so perfect are his imitations. He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates ; even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mates, or dive with precipitation into the depths of thickets, at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrow-hawk.
Page 329 - ... dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises pre-eminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
Page 212 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 287 - Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch! fill'd all things with himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet echoes the conceit; Poet who hath been building up the rhyme When he had better far have...
Page 214 - The acquitted parents see their soaring race, And, once rejoicing, never know them more. High from the summit of a craggy cliff. Hung o'er the deep, such as amazing frowns On utmost Hilda's shore, whose lonely race Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds, The royal eagle draws his vigorous young.