A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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... Birds , Changes in Hair - Bird Hairy Woodpecker Hemp - Bird Hermit - Thrush Heron Heron , Blue Hibernation of Swallows House - Sparrow House - Wren Humming - Bird • H. Fringilla socialis Picus villosus Fringilla tristis Turdus ...
... Birds , Changes in Hair - Bird Hairy Woodpecker Hemp - Bird Hermit - Thrush Heron Heron , Blue Hibernation of Swallows House - Sparrow House - Wren Humming - Bird • H. Fringilla socialis Picus villosus Fringilla tristis Turdus ...
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... Bird Music of Birds Night - Hawk Night - Jar November • Nuthatch October O'Lincoln Family Oven - Bird . Owls • · Peabody - Bird . Pewee Plea for the Birds Plover , Upland Plumage of Birds Preacher • • Protection of Birds Purple Finch ...
... Bird Music of Birds Night - Hawk Night - Jar November • Nuthatch October O'Lincoln Family Oven - Bird . Owls • · Peabody - Bird . Pewee Plea for the Birds Plover , Upland Plumage of Birds Preacher • • Protection of Birds Purple Finch ...
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... birds are as intimately allied with poetry as with music . Feathered Lyric " is a name that has been applied to the Lark by one of the English poets ; and the analogy is apparent when we consider how much the song of this bird resembles ...
... birds are as intimately allied with poetry as with music . Feathered Lyric " is a name that has been applied to the Lark by one of the English poets ; and the analogy is apparent when we consider how much the song of this bird resembles ...
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... birds , were it not for the remarkable variations in his song , in which I think he is equalled by no other bird . Of these variations there are six or seven that may be distinctly recognized , differing enough to be considered separate ...
... birds , were it not for the remarkable variations in his song , in which I think he is equalled by no other bird . Of these variations there are six or seven that may be distinctly recognized , differing enough to be considered separate ...
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... birds in the vicinity will follow with the same . These are mostly in triple time , some in common time , while in others the time could not be distinguished . Each tune , however , con- sists ... birds 14 BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD .
... birds in the vicinity will follow with the same . These are mostly in triple time , some in common time , while in others the time could not be distinguished . Each tune , however , con- sists ... birds 14 BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD .
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