Harmonia ruralis; or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds, Volume 1491830 |
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... less field lark are also variable in color . The nest of a kind of swallow in the Island of Sumatra , and on the coast of the China Seas , is considered to be one of the most delicious edible delicacies yet discoverd . It is a he ...
... less field lark are also variable in color . The nest of a kind of swallow in the Island of Sumatra , and on the coast of the China Seas , is considered to be one of the most delicious edible delicacies yet discoverd . It is a he ...
Page 10
... less than three broods in one season . With us it changes its residence according to the variations of the year , but is not supposed to depart from the island . In long droughts , when worms and other insects are scarce , it is very ...
... less than three broods in one season . With us it changes its residence according to the variations of the year , but is not supposed to depart from the island . In long droughts , when worms and other insects are scarce , it is very ...
Page 11
... oak leaves . The cock sings sweetly in breeding - time . His voice is less loud than any of the foregoing ; but is soft and mellow , and he has a pleasing variety of warbling notes . LOXIA PYRRHULA . Syst . Nat . 300 . THE 11.
... oak leaves . The cock sings sweetly in breeding - time . His voice is less loud than any of the foregoing ; but is soft and mellow , and he has a pleasing variety of warbling notes . LOXIA PYRRHULA . Syst . Nat . 300 . THE 11.
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... less common than most other singing birds that breed with us . This reward is sometimes extended to the destruction of all small birds , and the boys in the villages receive a halfpenny each for all the heads they take to the Overseers ...
... less common than most other singing birds that breed with us . This reward is sometimes extended to the destruction of all small birds , and the boys in the villages receive a halfpenny each for all the heads they take to the Overseers ...
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... less bright and glossy . She builds her nest in woods , particularly where sloe - bushes and crab- trees abound . For the ground - work she makes use of a number of small sticks broken of a proportionable length . These she places cross ...
... less bright and glossy . She builds her nest in woods , particularly where sloe - bushes and crab- trees abound . For the ground - work she makes use of a number of small sticks broken of a proportionable length . These she places cross ...
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appears ash-colour beautiful belly bill blackbird Bolton breast breed buff colour Buffon bulfinch cage Canary Canary Islands canarybird chaffinch claws coat cock common covert feathers crested lark Daines Barrington dark dried dull dusky black dusky white edges England Europe eyes are brown feeds female flies flocks frequently FRINGILLA goldfinch grass green ground hair head horn colour inches inhabitants insects kind lark legs and feet lining Linnæus Linnet lower male middle moss MOTACILLA Nest & Eggs NEST AND EGGS nightingale notes observes olive orange colour ornithologists pale brown Pennant PLATE plumage quill feathers redbreast reeds says season SEDGE WARBLER seeds side sing skylark small birds soft sometimes song birds SONG THRUSH sparrow species spots spring Sweden sweet SYLVIA Syst tail throat thrush tips titmouse trees twelve feathers Twite upper variety WARBLER WHINCHAT whole wings winter woodlark woods wren yellow young Zool