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... STARLING.-With regard to the vocal powers of this bird, Maegillivray says— Almost all authors are agreed in reducing its natural notes to ' a harsh scream, and a chatter or twitter;' but I have certainly heard them enumerate what to me, who am Elora sentimental ...
... richness, and delicacy of his voice is something wonderful,—it is wholly a feminine pipe, and pnwer, when exercised on the natural notes, is mellow and rich beyond description. Its range is limited, awl it is fesble and ineffective when any attempt is made ...
... erman,Bvo, el., 1838 0 6 6 Oersted's The Soul in Nature, tnnasted from the German, t Bvo, Bolan, 1832 0 3 0 Paley's Natural_ . , Notes by Brougham and Bell, cloth 0 2 3 Pococke's Early History of Greece, poet 8,0 . cloth . 0 6 Ramsay's Instinct and ...
... close confinement. There are finches whose value in vocal romequence depends entirely on teaching. The bullfinch has a natural note of the meanest order, and yet a sixpenny fiedg • k can be certainly educated to the state of aooom - Mont which raises ...
... little houee•keeper ; for it loves the firelight so such as its cousin the graaah,pperiloed the bright annahine ; and th, natural note. of both thane M. Sr. sug l owta ve of mirth and gladthas. Poi SIM MAVIS la WORLD 01001, warranted to Unkind all Iroplerstin ...
... The Invention the Telkphosf.—Nature notes, apropos of the approaching meeting tha British Association at Swansea, that on the occasion of the meeting there in 1848 a paper was read by F. Wishaw the te'.ekonphono, or speaking telegraph. This antedates ...
... to Aava them brought together in a volume . Her hfirp-Ing is chiefly on the devotional string . There are also . many natural notes of domestic affection and strains in praise of J 3 order scenery . • Mrs Fairbairn mixes a wi' admonition due ; and ...
... unco lang aboot it . His readers , however , will best appreciate those songB ' in which he strifces his characteristic natural . note of tenderness— A Cosy Wea Hoose 0 ' my Ain , ami the lyrics in the pleasant pastoral that gives tlie book its . title ...
... The musings ' ar ^ in verse . The author has fluency and facility in rhyming ; and occasionally strikes a sympathetic and natural note , although the volume , as a whole , reveals no great poetic ability , Messrs Swan Sonnenschein , Lowrey , & Co . have ...
... Cows have their characters, like the rest of us ; some are sympathetic. others self-contained, and get what they want from nature. Note, besides the harmony of colour, how cleverly the artist has thus suggested the disposition of the animal , : Diicker's ...
... And it will not avail to reproach Millet with the revelation of a melancholy sentiment which has not 'the spontaneous, natural note which produced the poetryof Turner's seas.' And is not Alonticelli taken too seriously, when he is ...
... their wit and wisdom, and the completeness of their organisation, the raven would take the first place. And although his natural note is harsh in the extreme, he is found to possess the muscles of song in • high state of development. Once, indeed, according ...