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208 THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS. close at your ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way off. Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched, I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whispering in the bushes. The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird. It is a most artful creature, skulking in the thickest part of a bush, and will sing at a yard distance, provided it be con- cealed. I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge, where it haunted ; and then it would run, creeping like a mouse, before us, for a hundred yards together, through the bottom of the thorns ; yet it would not come into fair sight ; but in the morning early, and when undisturbed, it sings on the top of a twig, gaping, and shivering with its wings." The note of this bird has often deceived me. I have frequently walked, early in the spring, over Coombwood and Wimbledon Common, for the pur- pose of collecting heaths and primroses, which grow about those places in great luxuriance, when sud- denly my attention has been attracted by this grass- hopper-like music. Being much surprised at hearing it so early in the season, I have endeavoured to get |
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| Source | https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/18494609021 | ||
| Author | Spratt, G. | ||
| Full title | The language of birds : comprising poetic and prose illustrations of the most favourite cage birds : with twelve highly-coloured plates / | ||
| Page ID | 47512191 | ||
| Item ID | 182943 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) | ||
| Title ID | 102770 (Find related Wikimedia Commons images) | ||
| Page numbers | Pl. 8 | ||
| BHL Page URL | https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47512191 | ||
| DOI | 10.5962/bhl.title.102770 | ||
| Page type | Illustration | ||
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| Flickr posted date | 5 June 2015 | ||
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