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Title: The history of birds : their varieties and oddities, comprising graphic descriptions of nearly all known species of birds, with fishes and insects, the world over, and illustrating their varied habits, modes of life, and distinguishing peculiarities by means of delightful anecdotes and spirited engravings
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Bingley, William, 1774-1823
Subjects: Birds Zoology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Edgewood Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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7SE GRASSfiOPPER LARK.
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1. PIPIT LARK, AS HE APPEARS IN THE ACT OF DESCENDING FROM HIS SONG FLIGHT. 2. WOODLARK.3. THRUSH. 4. BLACKBIRD. 5. SKYLARKS, MALE, FEMALE AND NEST. 185 186 THE SHOKE-LARK. hatched, it wou.d not be easy to persuade ones self that the not% uitared bj this lark was in reality the note of a bird. During the season of love, the male has great delight in uttering itasong from some bush adjacent to its nest. Its warbling is extreo--Jysimple, but at the same time is sweet, and by no means inharmoni«-uaThese birds also sing during their flight. They are artful little creatures, generally skulking in the thickestpart of the bushes, and sometimes when concealed, singing at thedistance of a little more than a yard from any person. Mr. White,speaking of one of them, says, that, in order to find it, he was under.•he necessity of desiring a person to go on the other side of a hedgethat it haunted. The bird even then ran before them, creeping likea Mouse, for more than a hundred yards, through th

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  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Bingley__William__1774_1823
  • booksubject:Birds
  • booksubject:Zoology
  • bookpublisher:Philadelphia___Edgewood_Publishing_Co_
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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