A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 13
... leaves it and repeats another in a similar manner . Mr. Charles S. Paine , of East Randolph , Massachusetts , was , I believe , the first to observe this habit of the Song - Sparrow . He took note , on one occasion , of the number of ...
... leaves it and repeats another in a similar manner . Mr. Charles S. Paine , of East Randolph , Massachusetts , was , I believe , the first to observe this habit of the Song - Sparrow . He took note , on one occasion , of the number of ...
Page 35
... leaves and flowers from their confinement , afford the most grateful of odors , and are a part of the peculiar incense of spring . But there are exhalations from the soil in April , when the ploughman is turning his furrows , that ...
... leaves and flowers from their confinement , afford the most grateful of odors , and are a part of the peculiar incense of spring . But there are exhalations from the soil in April , when the ploughman is turning his furrows , that ...
Page 39
... leaves and branches of the trees , or seizing it as it flits by their perch , and amusing themselves while thus employed with their oft - repeated notes . Each species builds a pensile nest , or places it in a fork of the slender ...
... leaves and branches of the trees , or seizing it as it flits by their perch , and amusing themselves while thus employed with their oft - repeated notes . Each species builds a pensile nest , or places it in a fork of the slender ...
Page 48
... leaves our fields . This sound is one of the melodies of summer's decline , and reminds us , like the note of the green nocturnal tree - hopper , of the ripened harvest , the fall of the leaf , and of all the joyous festivals and ...
... leaves our fields . This sound is one of the melodies of summer's decline , and reminds us , like the note of the green nocturnal tree - hopper , of the ripened harvest , the fall of the leaf , and of all the joyous festivals and ...
Page 49
... , he is in the garden under the currant - bushes , or chasing a spider under a cabbage - leaf . Again he is on the roof of a shed , warbling vociferously ; and these manoeuvres and peregri- nations have BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD . 49.
... , he is in the garden under the currant - bushes , or chasing a spider under a cabbage - leaf . Again he is on the roof of a shed , warbling vociferously ; and these manoeuvres and peregri- nations have BIRDS OF THE GARDEN AND ORCHARD . 49.
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