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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... 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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... ?? 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 ...
... _attention is directed to _tlie part of tlie _finger chosen . If tlie _finger be touched in tlie middle , it implies _a natural note ; if at tlic root of tlic finger , a sliarp note ; if at tlic tip a nab note . The _muatur _explains how _these _fiats ...
... 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 ...