Harmonia ruralis; or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds, Volume 1491830 |
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... numbers of insects which they must destroy . When educated from the nest , the thrush will readily learn the song of the woodlark , nightingale , or any other musical bird . NEST AND EGGS OF THE SONG - THRUSH . PLATE 11 *
... numbers of insects which they must destroy . When educated from the nest , the thrush will readily learn the song of the woodlark , nightingale , or any other musical bird . NEST AND EGGS OF THE SONG - THRUSH . PLATE 11 *
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... nightingale , each keeping silence alternately till the other has repeated his song . Blackbirds , as well as other birds of the thrush kind , when taken in traps , or otherwise , are easily reclaimed by being put in large cages with ...
... nightingale , each keeping silence alternately till the other has repeated his song . Blackbirds , as well as other birds of the thrush kind , when taken in traps , or otherwise , are easily reclaimed by being put in large cages with ...
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... nightingale , each keeping silence alternately till the other has repeated his song . Blackbirds , as well as other birds of the thrush kind , when taken in traps , or otherwise , are easily reclaimed by being put in large cages with ...
... nightingale , each keeping silence alternately till the other has repeated his song . Blackbirds , as well as other birds of the thrush kind , when taken in traps , or otherwise , are easily reclaimed by being put in large cages with ...
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... nightingale's or titlark's notes . Most of the birds imported from Tyrol have been educated under parents , the progeni- tors of which were instructed by a nightingale . Four Tyrolese generally bring over about sixteen hundred of these ...
... nightingale's or titlark's notes . Most of the birds imported from Tyrol have been educated under parents , the progeni- tors of which were instructed by a nightingale . Four Tyrolese generally bring over about sixteen hundred of these ...
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... nightingale's or titlark's notes . birds imported from Tyrol have been educated under parents , the progeni- tors of which were instructed by a nightingale . Four Tyrolese generally bring over about sixteen hundred of these birds ...
... nightingale's or titlark's notes . birds imported from Tyrol have been educated under parents , the progeni- tors of which were instructed by a nightingale . Four Tyrolese generally bring over about sixteen hundred of these birds ...
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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