Zoological RecreationsHenry Colburn, 1849 - Всего страниц: 384 |
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... Young Canary birds are frequently reared in a room where there are many other sorts , and yet I have been informed that they only learn the song of the parent cock . Every one knows that the common house - sparrow , when in a wild state ...
... Young Canary birds are frequently reared in a room where there are many other sorts , and yet I have been informed that they only learn the song of the parent cock . Every one knows that the common house - sparrow , when in a wild state ...
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... young birds to pipe notes . The term " recording " is more particularly used by the same fraternity , to distinguish the attempt of the nestling to sing , and which may be compared to the babble of a child in its imperfect endeavours to ...
... young birds to pipe notes . The term " recording " is more particularly used by the same fraternity , to distinguish the attempt of the nestling to sing , and which may be compared to the babble of a child in its imperfect endeavours to ...
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... young alive . " The food of the Missel Thrush consists of slugs , worms , insects , & c . , with no small addition of berries , among which that of the misseltoe ( whence its name ) is a decided favourite . The nest , which is begun in ...
... young alive . " The food of the Missel Thrush consists of slugs , worms , insects , & c . , with no small addition of berries , among which that of the misseltoe ( whence its name ) is a decided favourite . The nest , which is begun in ...
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... young were out of the shells , which the old ones carried off , by the thirteenth day . The " Ousel Cock " may be thought too common to require notice ; and yet some of our readers may not be aware that , glorying in its prodigality of ...
... young were out of the shells , which the old ones carried off , by the thirteenth day . The " Ousel Cock " may be thought too common to require notice ; and yet some of our readers may not be aware that , glorying in its prodigality of ...
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... young Cæsars had a Thrush , as well as Nightingales , eloquent in Latin and Greek . The talking Thrush belonging to Agrippina we admit ; but we suspect that the learned Thrush of the " Casares juvenes " was no more than a starling ; and ...
... young Cæsars had a Thrush , as well as Nightingales , eloquent in Latin and Greek . The talking Thrush belonging to Agrippina we admit ; but we suspect that the learned Thrush of the " Casares juvenes " was no more than a starling ; and ...
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