A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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... greater power over the imagination , though producing less pleasure to the ear , than louder and more complicated music . Nature employs a very small amount of physical agency to create sentiment , and when an excess is used a ...
... greater power over the imagination , though producing less pleasure to the ear , than louder and more complicated music . Nature employs a very small amount of physical agency to create sentiment , and when an excess is used a ...
Page 11
... greater supply of insect food caused by the tilling of the ground . It is well known that the labors of the farmer cause an excessive multipli- cation of all those insects whose larvæ are cherished in the soil , and of all that infest ...
... greater supply of insect food caused by the tilling of the ground . It is well known that the labors of the farmer cause an excessive multipli- cation of all those insects whose larvæ are cherished in the soil , and of all that infest ...
Page 23
... greater number utter only a few strains , resembling the notes of the Brigadier . These are constantly repeated during the greater part of the day . The song usually consists of four or five strains , very much alike ; but when the bird ...
... greater number utter only a few strains , resembling the notes of the Brigadier . These are constantly repeated during the greater part of the day . The song usually consists of four or five strains , very much alike ; but when the bird ...
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... greater part of their food . The male bird continues to sing until the young have left their nest ; but if there is to be no other brood , he becomes immediately silent . If , early in the season , a couple whose habit is to rear but ...
... greater part of their food . The male bird continues to sing until the young have left their nest ; but if there is to be no other brood , he becomes immediately silent . If , early in the season , a couple whose habit is to rear but ...
Page 31
... greater in the temperate zone , where there are more of those species that build low , and live in the shrubbery , which the singing - birds chiefly frequent . In warm climates the birds are obliged to live in trees , and the vegetation ...
... greater in the temperate zone , where there are more of those species that build low , and live in the shrubbery , which the singing - birds chiefly frequent . In warm climates the birds are obliged to live in trees , and the vegetation ...
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