A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 24
... England only are the inhabitants familiar with the habits of the Peabody - Bird , or White - throated Sparrow . I have seen it , however , in Cambridge ; and during a season when the currant- worm was very destructive , one individual ...
... England only are the inhabitants familiar with the habits of the Peabody - Bird , or White - throated Sparrow . I have seen it , however , in Cambridge ; and during a season when the currant- worm was very destructive , one individual ...
Page 26
... England birds is an autumnal war- bler , though the Robin , the Wood - Sparrow , and the Song- Sparrow are often heard after the first of September . The tuneful season in New England comprises April , May , and the three summer months ...
... England birds is an autumnal war- bler , though the Robin , the Wood - Sparrow , and the Song- Sparrow are often heard after the first of September . The tuneful season in New England comprises April , May , and the three summer months ...
Page 41
Wilson Flagg. THE BOBOLINK . There is not a singing - bird in New England that en- joys the notoriety of the Bobolink . He is like a rare wit in our social or political circles . Everybody is talk- ing about him and quoting his remarks ...
Wilson Flagg. THE BOBOLINK . There is not a singing - bird in New England that en- joys the notoriety of the Bobolink . He is like a rare wit in our social or political circles . Everybody is talk- ing about him and quoting his remarks ...
Page 49
... England vil- lages , and as it extends its summer migration to Labrador , it probably breeds in all places north of the Middle States . It is a migratory bird , leaving us early in autumn , and not reappearing until May . It builds in a ...
... England vil- lages , and as it extends its summer migration to Labrador , it probably breeds in all places north of the Middle States . It is a migratory bird , leaving us early in autumn , and not reappearing until May . It builds in a ...
Page 63
... England and in all the northeastern States of this conti- nent . If his sweet notes were wanting , the mornings would be like a landscape without the rose , or a summer- evening sky without tints . He is the chief performer in the ...
... England and in all the northeastern States of this conti- nent . If his sweet notes were wanting , the mornings would be like a landscape without the rose , or a summer- evening sky without tints . He is the chief performer in the ...
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