A Year with the BirdsEducational Publishing Company, 1889 - 317 pages |
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... Singing - Birds Snipe Song - Sparrow Sounds from Animate Natnre Sounds from Inanimate Nature Speckled Creeper Spotted Tattler Summer Yellow - Bird Swallows their Hibernation . Swan : Swamp - Sparrow • R. Picus Carolinus Picus ...
... Singing - Birds Snipe Song - Sparrow Sounds from Animate Natnre Sounds from Inanimate Nature Speckled Creeper Spotted Tattler Summer Yellow - Bird Swallows their Hibernation . Swan : Swamp - Sparrow • R. Picus Carolinus Picus ...
Page 6
... sing in the Night Wilson's Thrush Winter Birds . Winter - Wren Woodcock . Woodpecker , Downy Caprimulgus vociferus Turdus Wilsonii Troglodytes hyemalis . Scolopax rusticola 66 Hairy . 66 Red - headed Wood - Sparrow Wood - Swallow ...
... sing in the Night Wilson's Thrush Winter Birds . Winter - Wren Woodcock . Woodpecker , Downy Caprimulgus vociferus Turdus Wilsonii Troglodytes hyemalis . Scolopax rusticola 66 Hairy . 66 Red - headed Wood - Sparrow Wood - Swallow ...
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... singing - birds are seen in the suburbs of a great city than in the deep forest , where , even in the vocal season , the silence is sometimes melancholy . The species which are thus familiar in their habits , though but a small part of ...
... singing - birds are seen in the suburbs of a great city than in the deep forest , where , even in the vocal season , the silence is sometimes melancholy . The species which are thus familiar in their habits , though but a small part of ...
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... sing only in the night come with a double charm to our ears , because they are harmonized by silence and hallowed by the hour that is sacred to repose , in like manner does the Song - Sparrow delight us in tenfold measure , because he sings ...
... sing only in the night come with a double charm to our ears , because they are harmonized by silence and hallowed by the hour that is sacred to repose , in like manner does the Song - Sparrow delight us in tenfold measure , because he sings ...
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