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Title: The oriole : official organ of the Somerset Hills Bird Club
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Somerset Hills Bird Club (Bernardsville, N.J.)
Subjects: Somerset Hills Bird Club (Bernardsville, N.J.) Birds Ornithology
Publisher: Bernardsville, N.J. : The Club
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Canadian Rockies, thesouthern states, through the British Islands and upand down the continent of Europe, while a few in-quiries have come in regard to the feathered inhabi-tants of Africa and farthest India. It has entertained me in travelling abroad to noticehow some of the birds went travelling with me, so tospeak. These, of course, were among those morecommon in different countries, and perhaps it wouldbe nearer the facts to say that I travelled with thebirds, as they were keeping to their usual ways, withwhich my general plans of travel coincided. In Englands west-country, in mid-June in thesummer of 1913, birds were everywhere, and they aremore frequently found in medium-sized towns inEngland, than with us perhaps. Many rare specieswere seen, together with common ones, but no Night-ingale glorified an hour. It is said that they do notenter Devonshire and Cornwall and even were theyfound there, their singing for the season would endabout the middle of June. In steaming past Lands
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. 9 - ■■) HOUSE WRENOrder—Passeres Family—Troglodytid-c Genus—Troglodytes Species—Aedon National Association of Audubon Societies End and along the coast of Cornwall to Plymouththe ship was followed by crowds of Gulls, mostly theHerring and Great Black-backed. Lovely Exeter, around its cathedrals close, and theparked streets and private gardens near, was vocalwith bird songs. There the large Thrush, often calledthe Stormcock, which is so like our Thrasher in ap-pearance and song, was always flinging his phrasesafar, from some tree-top; while his smaller cousin,the Throstle or Song-thrush gave almost the samenotes, less vehemently from some more secludedperch. Browning said of these Thrushes: Hear the wise Thrush repeat his song twice over, Lest you should think he never could re-capture, That first, fine, careless rapture. And I had supposed that with Mr. Brownings greataccuracy, this marked a difference between the songof our Thrasher and the European Song-thrush, butin l

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