Zoological Recreations |
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... that species were created , all the distinctions of voice and plumage follow of course ; and it will equally follow that they have been regularly transmitted down to the present period in such species as have not become extinct .
... that species were created , all the distinctions of voice and plumage follow of course ; and it will equally follow that they have been regularly transmitted down to the present period in such species as have not become extinct .
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... will discover that the larynx becomes gradually capable of giving the common warble . This method of recovering the song does not , then , show deficiency of memory , but liability to rigidity , occasioned by disuse of the larynx .
... will discover that the larynx becomes gradually capable of giving the common warble . This method of recovering the song does not , then , show deficiency of memory , but liability to rigidity , occasioned by disuse of the larynx .
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... nightingale or red - bird , with such superior execution and effect , that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority , and become altogether silent , while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions .
... nightingale or red - bird , with such superior execution and effect , that the mortified songsters feel their own inferiority , and become altogether silent , while he seems to triumph in their defeat by redoubling his exertions .
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... with the exception of the murmur of the brook ; but the wind changes , the clouds disperse , forth breaks the sun , the insects swarm , the tuneful stream becomes alive with the rising trouts , and the groves burst out into melody .
... with the exception of the murmur of the brook ; but the wind changes , the clouds disperse , forth breaks the sun , the insects swarm , the tuneful stream becomes alive with the rising trouts , and the groves burst out into melody .
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The first impulse is to regret the sacrifice of so sweet a singer ; but if these myriads were left unmolested , what would become of the other species — what would become of the Sky - larks themselves ? Still they must be seen on the ...
The first impulse is to regret the sacrifice of so sweet a singer ; but if these myriads were left unmolested , what would become of the other species — what would become of the Sky - larks themselves ? Still they must be seen on the ...
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| Название | Zoological Recreations |
| Автор | William John Broderip |
| Издатель | H. Colburn, 1849 |
| Владелец оригинала: | Нью-Йоркская публичная библиотека |
| Оцифровано | 19 окт 2009 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 384 |
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