 ... love-laboured song before the females arrive. No sooner do they make their appearance than dreadful battles ensue, and their notes are considerably changed : sometimes their song is hurried through without the usual grace and elegance; at other times...  Popular British ornithology - Page 34by Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1848 - 412 pages
...notes are changed ; their song is sometimes hurried through without the usual grace and elegance ; and at other times modulated into a soothing melody. The first we conceive to be a provocation to battle at the appearance of another male ; the last, an amorous cadence, or courting address. This variety... | |
 | Johann Matthäus Bechstein - Birds - 1856 - 598 pages
...notes are changed ; their song is sometimes hurried through without the usual grace and elegance ; and at other times modulated into a soothing melody. The first we conceive to be a provocation to battle at the appearance of another male ; the last, an amorous cadence, or courting address. This variety... | |
 | Johann Matthaeus Bechstein - 1856 - 272 pages
...notes are changed ; their song is sometimes hurried through without the usual grace and elegance ; and at other times modulated into a soothing melody. The first we conceive to be a provocation to battle at the appearance of another male ; the last, an amorous cadence, or courting address. This variety... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...notes are changed ; their song is sometimes hurried through without the usual grace and elegance, and at other times modulated into a soothing melody. The first we conceive to be a provocation to battle at the appearance of another male ; the last, an amorous cadence, or courting address. This variety... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1872 - 758 pages
...notes arc changed ; their song is sometimes hurried through without the usual grace and elegance, and at other times modulated into a soothing melody. The first we conceive to be a provocation to battle at the appearance of another male ; the last, an amorous cadence, or courting address. This variety... | |
 | George Montagu - 1881 - 504 pages
...mount aloft to pour forth their amorous strains incessant, each seemingly vieing in their love laboured song before the females arrive. * No sooner do they...grace and elegance ; at other times modulated into a southing melody. The h'rst we conceive to be a provocation to battle on the sight of another male ;... | |
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