[In compliance with the requests of some of our readers, -we have inserted the following history of the ..

... kept in cage, fxngs all the and fummer, at leaft four or five months in the year. He is a flout hardy bird ; and, his own natural note, inay taught to whiftle a great many tunes. When wild in the fields, he feeds promifcuoufly upon berries and infc&s. He ...

Published: Friday 01 June 1781
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 930 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

epistle on the NGINg of birds. P, editor, 1 distinguished excep- ls the Naturalists of the day are c spending

... shall be told that birds may taught the notes of different species, and that bulfinches and starlings, which possess no natural notes American Museum, July 1787. The poets are mistaken in giving the bulfinch a song. Thomson says the Mellow bulfinch answers ...

Published: Friday 01 January 1819
Newspaper: The Scots Magazine
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3995 | Page: 22 | Tags: none

CHEAT NORTH ROAD

... hunters, in their night excursions, know that the moon rising the instant they begin to hear his delightful solo. His natural notes partake of a character to those of the brown thrush, but they are more sweet, more expressive, varied, uttered with greater ...

Published: Monday 13 July 1829
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening Courant
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4028 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PHRENOLOGY—JOHN ADAM

... Directors of bespeak perform the manager for 1 The generally and de crowd the Seryci: la —and trees in the Park rural nature; noted fir its seve in the heart giees farther Not tains and lakes, end mild winter, this quarter, a have collected as ills luxurious ...

Published: Wednesday 30 December 1835
Newspaper: Inverness Courier
County: Inverness-shire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 1896 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ELGIN DISTRICT OF BURGHS. PUBLIC MEETING OF THK FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF

... musical scale. The plan propo-ed gives to the last stn of each hour a different musical sound, according with one of the natural notes of the gamut. Thus, at one in the morning the clock would give the sound of la, the lowest tone of the bass clef; at two ...

Published: Thursday 08 February 1838
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3593 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

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... llo , _hair-boanii , COO _plate-, £ 25 , at £ 3 : 13 : G _. _Goldsniitli ' . _'i _HisltirT ofllie Einli and _Animaled _Nature . Notes by Captain Bwrn . 4 _icll _. 12 mo _, lialf-bound tnorocco , pUle _* _, S 9 _f . at 2 ( b _. _Edinburgli _Annaal _Register ...

Published: Saturday 12 January 1839
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 696 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MRS BISHOP'S CONCERT

... repeat our former en- comilRRs. Mfaking Rllowaitice for the alternate thin- ne s andI mellowniess of the artificial anid natural notes of the horn, we thinik luis plavinlg is very beau- tiful, in respect alike of expression mnit executiotR. 31r Blocusn, ...

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... _St ., only 24 s . Adolplius' _Hittory of England , 3 vols . 8 vo , 31 _s _. Gd ., ' only Os . _Goldsmith's Animated Nature , Notes by Captain . Brown , 4 vols . 12 mo , fine Plate _» , half-bound , calf _gilt , 50 s ., only 19 _s . _Neale ' s History ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1839
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 834 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC PRESS

... ?? two old ones have been kept for the rast eight months, wbich is very lively, and likely to (lo well. A birth of tbe nature noted, is exceedingly rare, if not altogether unprecedented so great is the diffbrence between a state of nature and confinement ...

Published: Monday 20 July 1840
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1442 | Page: 4 | Tags: News 

the car the public, had this circumstance in his favor, that his songs were exclusively of a class which, both

... peculiar pathos of the well-known airs was never, in our hearing, given with more exquisite expression. The fullness of his natural notes is not more remarkable than the extent and softness of his falsetto, his ascent to and fall from which has nothing of the ...

Published: Thursday 13 June 1844
Newspaper: Perthshire Courier
County: Perthshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 395 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Statistics of the Island of Seye.—The population of Skye is about 26,000, of whom, round numbers, 5000 may be supp

... attuned to the full compass and power of the nightingale. The effect was most pleasing, although, course, not equal to the natural notes this bird, not ono of which he retained. Indeed, many birds are almost, if not entirely, imitative, and, in default of ...