Chamber and Cage Birds: Their Management, Habits, Diseases, Breeding, and the Methods of Taking ThemR. Hardwicke, 1871 - 492 頁 |
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abdomen ants ashy grey autumn beak beautiful Bech beneath bird-catchers bird-lime blackish blue bluish body breast bred breeding bright yellow bushes cage Canary captured caught Chaffinch chamber birds cheeks COMMENDATORY common Chaffinch common Crossbill common Nightingale confinement coverts dark brown delicate DESCRIPTION.-This eggs elder berries especially eyes feed feet Finches flesh colour flocks frequently Goldfinch grass green greyish head hemp hens inches long insects irides Lark larvæ Lesser Redpole limed twigs lines high lines long Linnet male mandible margined meal-worms moulting Mules neck nest Nightingale noose NORWICH CANARIES notes Parrots perch pinion feathers placed plumage rape seed reared reddish grey reddish white resembles rump rusty seed side sing Siskin Skylark song Song Thrush spots spring stripe tail feathers tail occupies throat Thrush Thuringia tinge trees upper usually water-cresses whitish wings winter woods Yellow Bunting yellowish young birds
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第 305 頁 - THE REVERIE OF POOR SUSAN. AT the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears, Hangs a thrush that sings loud — it has sung for three years ; Poor Susan has passed by the spot, and has heard In the silence of morning the song of the bird. Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees ; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
第 275 頁 - Wild is thy lay, and loud, Far in the downy cloud; Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth. O'er fell and fountain sheen, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away!
第 275 頁 - Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place— Oh to abide in the desert with thee! Wild is thy lay and loud, Far in the downy cloud Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where, on thy dewy wing, Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth.
第 258 頁 - One appeared dead, and was held up by the tail or claw without exhibiting any signs of life. A second stood on its head, with its claws in the air. A third imitated a Dutch milkmaid going to market, with pails on its shoulders. A fourth mimicked a Venetian girl looking out at a window. A fifth appeared as a soldier, and mounted guard as a sentinel.
第 248 頁 - For a' the notes that ever rang From a' the harps o' minstrelsie. Mair dear to me, where buss or breer Amang the pathless heather grows, The Lintie's wild sweet note to hear, As on the ev'mV breeze it flows.
第 398 頁 - ... reddish brown, with four black brown stripes ; it has a few long straight feathers, which make the head appear broad, and which when under excitement it erects as a crest. The head is surrounded from eye to eye by a whitish grey coronal ; the temples are brown ; the back of the neck and the upper part of the back are reddish brown, with black brown spots ; the lower part of the back grey brown ; around the cheeks, the throat, neck, and breast, are whitish yellow, with black brown spots ; the...
第 120 頁 - Always when evening drew on, and often during the day, she laid her head close to the image in the glass, and began to doze with great composure and satisfaction. In this short space she had learned to know her name — to answer and come when called on — to climb up my clothes — sit on my shoulders — and eat from my mouth. I took her with me to sea, determined to persevere in her education...
第 276 頁 - The song of the lark, besides being a most accessible and delightful subject for common observation, is a very curious one for the physiologist. Everyone in the least conversant with the structure of birds must be aware that, with them, the organs of intonation and modulation are inward, deriving little assistance from the tongue, and none or next to none from the mandibles of the bill. The wind-pipe is the musical organ, and it is often very curiously formed. Birds require that organ less for breathing...
第 iii 頁 - ... enabling our youth to become more intimately acquainted with this charming portion of the feathered creation, I should have succeeded in multiplying their virtuous enjoyments, and in rendering them more humane to those little choristers, how gratifying to my heart would be the reflection ! For to me it appears that, of all inferior creatures, Heaven seems to have intended birds as the most cheerful associates of man, to soothe and exhilarate him in his...
第 226 頁 - Their young are fed for a time with soft fruits, young vegetables, and insects, particularly caterpillars, and so great is the number of these that are consumed by the parent birds, and their successive bvoods of young, that it is a question whether the benefit thus performed is not a fair equivalent for the grain and seeds required at other seasons of the year.