Birds, Part 294Religious Tract Society, 1842 - 159 pages |
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... BIRD -THE RAVEN - THE MAGPIE - THE JAY - THE SWALLOW - THE ROOK . SPRING is a season of great activity . No sooner have the trees put forth their leaves , than millions of birds commence their labours . Here they may be observed ...
... BIRD -THE RAVEN - THE MAGPIE - THE JAY - THE SWALLOW - THE ROOK . SPRING is a season of great activity . No sooner have the trees put forth their leaves , than millions of birds commence their labours . Here they may be observed ...
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... bird often builds against a perpendicular wall without any projecting ledge under , its utmost efforts are needed to secure a firm foundation . To effect its purpose , the swallow not only clings with its claws , but partly supports ...
... bird often builds against a perpendicular wall without any projecting ledge under , its utmost efforts are needed to secure a firm foundation . To effect its purpose , the swallow not only clings with its claws , but partly supports ...
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... birds begin many dwellings , and leave them un- finished ; but when once a nest is built in a sheltered place , after much labour , it serves for several seasons . The sand - martin mines deep holes in sand or chalk cliffs , to the ...
... birds begin many dwellings , and leave them un- finished ; but when once a nest is built in a sheltered place , after much labour , it serves for several seasons . The sand - martin mines deep holes in sand or chalk cliffs , to the ...
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... birds disdain to fix their abode in some tree . They like to build , too , under the mud - bottom of a rook's nest , which defends them from the rain . The white owl seeks the antique ruin'd wall , Fearless of rapine ; or , in hollow ...
... birds disdain to fix their abode in some tree . They like to build , too , under the mud - bottom of a rook's nest , which defends them from the rain . The white owl seeks the antique ruin'd wall , Fearless of rapine ; or , in hollow ...
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abode admiration appears beak beautiful BEE-EATER blackcap blood-vessels branches Brentius brood burrowing BURROWING OWL called chaffinch CHANGES DURING INCUBATION chick circumstances colour concealed covered crake creatures defence diameter downy Duke of Würtemberg dwelling eagle EGG-ORGAN eggs embryo entrance escape fact feathered tribes feet female fibres FISH-HAWK flight glottis GOLDEN-CRESTED Goosander grass grove hatched hawk heard hollow HUMMING-BIRD inches instance instinct lark larynx máamal male mate materials melody membrane moss mould neck nest nightingale notes observed opening ORGANS OF VOICE pair of muscles parrots peculiar plumage prey produced providence quia quill remarkable round SATIN BOWER-BIRD season shell singing snowy owl soft sometimes SONG BIRDS song thrush songsters sparrow species spot STRUCTURE OF ORGANS surface swallow thick titmouse tones trachea tree tube TURTLE DOVE twigs tzatu varies variety warblers wings wood WOOD WARBLER wren yolk yolk-bag young
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Page 2 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Page 27 - The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Page 16 - Leave to the nightingale her shady wood ; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct more divine; Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home...
Page 16 - ... mallet, the tree nodded to its fall; but still the dam sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest ; and, though...
Page 19 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 22 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Page 14 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 24 - Superior heard, run through the sweetest length Of notes, when listening Philomela deigns To let them joy, and purposes, in thought Elate, to make her night excel their day. The blackbird...
Page 11 - Within a thick and spreading hawthorn bush That overhung a mole-hill large and round, I heard, from morn to morn, a merry Thrush Sing hymns to sunrise...