Cage and Chamber-birds: Their Natural History, Habits, Food, Diseases, Management, and Modes of CaptureG. Bell and Sons, 1885 - 500 стор. |
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... Moulting . - Care of bad feet.— General food , how to make and keep it .-- Thrive and sing better in an open , than a covered cage . - Not to be allowed to wash too often . - HON . and REV . W. HERBERT , and PROFESSOR RENNIE , on food ...
... Moulting . - Care of bad feet.— General food , how to make and keep it .-- Thrive and sing better in an open , than a covered cage . - Not to be allowed to wash too often . - HON . and REV . W. HERBERT , and PROFESSOR RENNIE , on food ...
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... Moulting , & c . SECTION 12. HABITAT AND MIGRATION . CUVIER'S account.- Habitat not circumscribed . - Regularity and method of migration . -Periods of arrival and departure . - Each species , its distinct habitat . - THOMPSON'S account ...
... Moulting , & c . SECTION 12. HABITAT AND MIGRATION . CUVIER'S account.- Habitat not circumscribed . - Regularity and method of migration . -Periods of arrival and departure . - Each species , its distinct habitat . - THOMPSON'S account ...
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... moulting . It seems , in general , to be a prerogative of the males , by which they either invite or seek to retain the affections of the females . There are indeed a few species , e . g . the Redbreast , Lark , Canary , & c . , the ...
... moulting . It seems , in general , to be a prerogative of the males , by which they either invite or seek to retain the affections of the females . There are indeed a few species , e . g . the Redbreast , Lark , Canary , & c . , the ...
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... moulting , and have to learn it again every spring . The fact , however , does not seem to me , to be thus rightly described . The practising , which goes by the name of learning , or recording , is only a kind of exercise of the organs ...
... moulting , and have to learn it again every spring . The fact , however , does not seem to me , to be thus rightly described . The practising , which goes by the name of learning , or recording , is only a kind of exercise of the organs ...
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... moulting season the bird so treated generally dies , for want of the oily matter necessary to soften the feathers . 7. EPILEPSY . This disease , which is very common among Cage - Birds , seems to be brought on by a plethoric habit of ...
... moulting season the bird so treated generally dies , for want of the oily matter necessary to soften the feathers . 7. EPILEPSY . This disease , which is very common among Cage - Birds , seems to be brought on by a plethoric habit of ...
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allowed to range ashen grey Attractive Qualities.-The autumn aviary beak beautiful BECH belly Blackcap blue body bread breast breed Bullfinch Bunting cage Cage-birds Canary Carrion Crow caught Chaffinch Common Nightingale confinement dark brown Description.-This edged eggs elderberries eyes feed feet Fieldfares Finch flesh-colour flocks fond frequently Goldfinch green greyish brown ground habits head hemp seed Hoopoe House Sparrow inches in length insects iris Lark larvæ Lesser Redpole light lighter limed twigs Linnet lower MACGILLIVRAY male mandible meal worms moulting Mountain Finch neck nest Nightingale pair Parrots pen feathers perch plumage range the room rape seed reared reddish grey resembles rump rust colour season side sing Siskin sometimes song Song Thrush Sparrow species spotted spring Stock Dove stripe tail feathers tail measures throat Thrush Thuringia tinged tipped trees universal paste whitish wild wing coverts winter woods yellow Yellowhammer yellowish young birds
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Сторінка 312 - To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! — that love-prompted strain — 'Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond — Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring.
Сторінка 312 - ... and frequent weighing of his wings, till the little creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air, about his ministries here below.