Chamber and cage birds, tr. by W.E. Shuckard |
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第 1 到 5 筆結果,共 88 筆
第 iv 頁
... song - birds . Of late years much more attention has been paid to this portion of the bird creation , judging from the vast number of exhibitors who have patronised the numerous exhibitions held in various parts of the country . The ...
... song - birds . Of late years much more attention has been paid to this portion of the bird creation , judging from the vast number of exhibitors who have patronised the numerous exhibitions held in various parts of the country . The ...
第 2 頁
... song . I shall , therefore , in sketching this history of chamber birds , note particularly the characteristics which distinguish the male from the female . As all birds are not susceptible of being tamed , and do not harmonise with the ...
... song . I shall , therefore , in sketching this history of chamber birds , note particularly the characteristics which distinguish the male from the female . As all birds are not susceptible of being tamed , and do not harmonise with the ...
第 3 頁
... song of the bird , stimu- lated by which , a whole wood or aviary is sometimes observed to strike up its jubilant notes ; it is also excited by means of the solitary and peculiar tones of several species . In the autumn and the early ...
... song of the bird , stimu- lated by which , a whole wood or aviary is sometimes observed to strike up its jubilant notes ; it is also excited by means of the solitary and peculiar tones of several species . In the autumn and the early ...
第 4 頁
... song . In many the call - note varies according to the varying emotion or want , in others it is uniform . Thus , the Chaf- finch in its migrations calls yack ! yack ! In the expression of joy , a solitary fink ! fink ! When excited ...
... song . In many the call - note varies according to the varying emotion or want , in others it is uniform . Thus , the Chaf- finch in its migrations calls yack ! yack ! In the expression of joy , a solitary fink ! fink ! When excited ...
第 5 頁
... song of chamber birds consists partly of the borrowed song of other birds , which young birds , especially , learn in aviaries ; or of such as are whistled or played to them upon flutes and organs . Almost all singing birds , if not ...
... song of chamber birds consists partly of the borrowed song of other birds , which young birds , especially , learn in aviaries ; or of such as are whistled or played to them upon flutes and organs . Almost all singing birds , if not ...
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abdomen ants ashy grey autumn beak beautiful Bech beneath bird-catchers bird-lime birds of prey blackish blue bluish body breast bred breeding bright yellow Buff.-DER Bullfinch bushes cage Canary CAPTURE 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 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 notes Parrots perch pinion feathers placed plumage rape seed reared 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 303 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 273 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 273 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 256 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 117 頁 - durance vile" we generally had a quarrel; during which it frequently paid me in kind for the wound I had inflicted, and for depriving it of liberty, by cutting and almost disabling several of my fingers with its sharp and powerful bill. The path through the wilderness between Nashville and Natchez is in some places bad beyond description.
第 398 頁 - ... brown flesh colour ; the vertex is 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,...
第 118 頁 - 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 shoulder, and eat from my mouth. I took her with me to sea, determined to persevere in her education...
第 274 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 224 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.