British Song Birds: Being Popular Descriptions and Anecdotes of the Choristers of the GrovesJohn W. Parker, 1836 - 408페이지 |
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abundant amongst Analyst appears approach autumn beautiful Blackcapt Blue Tit BLYTH Brake Nightingale breeding season British birds brown Chaff Finch Coal Tit colour concealed confinement considerable corn Corn Bunting Derbyshire eggs extremely favourite feathers feeding female Fieldfare flocks frequently Garden Ouzel Garden Thrush Garden Tit genus Goldcrested grass ground habits haunts heard Hedge Dunnock hole House Sparrow insects Ivy Wren larvæ LATH latter less likewise LINN male manner Marsh Tit Meadow Pipit melody Missel Thrush moss Naturalist neighbourhood nest never night notes Oatear observed occasionally Ornithologist pair partial perch plumage present species rarely Reed Bunting remarkable resembles Robin Redbreast scarcely Sedge Reedling seeds seen SELBY SELBY's seldom singing Sky Lark sometimes song songster specimen spot spring strains summer Syst.-LATH tail TEMMINCK thick Tree Pipit usually uttering Wagtail Warbler whilst Whin Linnet wing winter Wood Lark Yellow Bunting young birds
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26 페이지 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers...
91 페이지 - 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.
187 페이지 - To soothe the throbbing passions into peace; And woo lone Quiet in her silent walks. Thus solitary, and in pensive guise, Oft...
229 페이지 - ... shrine. Bird of the morn ! from thee might man, Creation's lord, a lesson take ; If thou whose instinct ill may scan The glories that around thee break, Thus bidd'st a sleeping world awake To joy and praise ; — Oh ! how much more Should MIND, immortal, earth forsake, And man look upward to adore ! Bird of the happy, heaven-ward song ! Could but the Poet act thy part, His soul, up-borne on wings as strong As thought can give— from earth might start, And with a far diviner art Than genius ever...
187 페이지 - Far, in faint warblings, through the tawny copse; While congregated thrushes, linnets, larks, And each wild throat, whose artless strains so late Swelled all the music of the swarming shades, Robbed of their tuneful souls, now shivering sit On the dead tree...
30 페이지 - WHEN snowdrops die, and the green primrose leaves Announce the coming flower, the Merle's note, Mellifluous, rich, deep-toned, fills all the vale, And charms the ravished ear. The hawthorn bush, New-budded, is his perch ; there the gray dawn He hails; and there, with parting light, concludes His melody.
272 페이지 - I have found, in numerous instances, quantities of the eggs or larvae of certain insects, mixed with a kind of slimy earth. About the middle of March they generally disappear, on their route to the north.
386 페이지 - Up ! let us to the fields away, And breathe the fresh and balmy air; The bird is building in the tree, The flower has opened to the bee, And health, and love, and peace are there.
121 페이지 - ... and cinereous, on a greenish- white ground ; the markings becoming more dense, and forming a zone at the larger end. " The young were considered no small treasure, and were taken as soon as the proper age arrived for rearing them by hand ; which is at the time the tips of the quills and the greater coverts of the wings expose a portion of the fibrous end.
193 페이지 - ... tribe, with the head or back downwards. If disturbed, they immediately descend by running, or rather by dropping. The movement is rapid along the stalk to the bottom, where they creep and flit, perfectly concealed from view by the closeness of the covert, and the resembling tints of their plumage.