A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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Page 33
... rising flowers , the perfumed breezes , and the music of the animated tenants of the streams , woods , and orchards , are all inviting us to come forth and partake of the pleasures they proffer , it is wearisome to sit down apart from ...
... rising flowers , the perfumed breezes , and the music of the animated tenants of the streams , woods , and orchards , are all inviting us to come forth and partake of the pleasures they proffer , it is wearisome to sit down apart from ...
Page 40
... rising inflection at the close , and with a pause , as if wait- ing for an answer . The tones of the Preacher are loud and sharp , hardly melodious , modulated somewhat like those of the Robin , though not so continuous . He is never ...
... rising inflection at the close , and with a pause , as if wait- ing for an answer . The tones of the Preacher are loud and sharp , hardly melodious , modulated somewhat like those of the Robin , though not so continuous . He is never ...
Page 63
... rising day . Of others the best are but accompaniments of more or less . importance . Remove the Robin from this woodland or- chestra , and it would be left without a soprano . Over all the northern parts of this continent , wherever ...
... rising day . Of others the best are but accompaniments of more or less . importance . Remove the Robin from this woodland or- chestra , and it would be left without a soprano . Over all the northern parts of this continent , wherever ...
Page 79
... rising morn , and infuses a transparent ruddiness throughout the at- mosphere . As daylight widens , successive groups of mottled and rosy - bosomed clouds assemble on the gilded sphere , and , crowned with wreaths of fickle rainbows ...
... rising morn , and infuses a transparent ruddiness throughout the at- mosphere . As daylight widens , successive groups of mottled and rosy - bosomed clouds assemble on the gilded sphere , and , crowned with wreaths of fickle rainbows ...
Page 82
... rising to a higher key towards the conclusion . He sometimes prolongs his strain , when his notes are ob- served to rise and fall in succession . These plaintive and expressive notes are very loud and constantly uttered , during the ...
... rising to a higher key towards the conclusion . He sometimes prolongs his strain , when his notes are ob- served to rise and fall in succession . These plaintive and expressive notes are very loud and constantly uttered , during the ...
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