American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States, Količina 1Whittaker, Treacher & Arnot, 1832 |
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America appearance Arct Baltimore Baltimore Oriole Bartram belly bill Bonap branches breast breed brown brownish Buff Bunting cage Catesby claws colour dark deep dusky edged eggs favourite feathers feed female Flycatcher frequently Fringilla genus green habits half hazel hind head inches inhabits insects la Caroline larvæ Lath latter legs and feet light blue male mandible manners Marsh Wren middle miles Mocking Bird Muscicapa naturalist nearly neck nest never North northern notes numbers Nuthatch observed olive Orchard Oriole orchards Oriole ornithologists pale passing Peale's Museum Pennsylvania PLATE plumage Red-headed Woodpecker resembling river round scarcely Scarlet Tanager season seen shew side sometimes song Sparrow species spot streaked summer Swainson Sylvia Synop Syst tail Tanagra throat Thrush Titmouse tree Warbler William Bartram Wilson wing-coverts wings winter Winter Wren wood thrush Woodpecker woods Wren yellow Zool
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Stran 166 - ... taught him by his master, though of considerable length, fully and faithfully. He runs over the quiverings of the Canary, and the clear whistlings of the Virginia Nightingale, or Red-bird, with such superior execution and effect, that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority, and become altogether silent, while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions.
Stran 168 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Stran 165 - ... for half an hour, or an hour, at a time. His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly docs the ear, he sweeps round with enthusiastic ecstasy — he mounts and descends as his song swells...
Stran 50 - See man for mine!" replies a pamper'd goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
Stran 217 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, As modest stillness, and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Stran 60 - THE pleasing manners and sociable disposition of this little bird entitle him to particular notice. As one of the first messengers of spring, bringing the charming tidings to our very doors, he bears his own recommendation always along with him, and meets with a hearty welcome from every body.
Stran 146 - ... rewarded with a small portion of that which it has contributed to preserve ? We are told, in the benevolent language of the scriptures, not to muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn...
Stran 261 - ... lizards, &c. It approaches the farm-house, particularly in the morning, skulking about the barn-yard for mice or young chickens. It frequently plunges into a thicket after small birds, as if by random ; but always with a particular, and generally a fatal, aim.
Stran c - He begged the servant not to be afraid of him, for that he would not hurt him. He expired in about two hours, or just as the sun rose above the trees. He lies buried close by the common path, with a few loose rails thrown over his grave.
Stran lxii - My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a few neat academies, I found their schoolhouses equally ruinous and deserted with ours; fields covered with stones; stone fences; scrubby oaks and...