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Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles (Volume 2)

Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects, and Reptiles (Volume 2)

Buffon, Georges Louis Le Clerc

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ISBN10: 115440661X
ISBN13: 9781154406610
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.12 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1798. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE BLACKBIRD IS a bird well known in most, if not all the counties in England. He is the largest songbird found in the kingdom; and likewise one of the first that proclaims the welcome spring, by his shrill harmonious voice, as if he were the harbinger of Nature, to awaken the rest of the feathered tribe to prepare for the approach ing season; and by the sweet modulation of his tuneful accents, endeavours to delight the-hen atid allure her to the office of incubation, even before there are leaves on the trees, and whilst the frosts are in the fields; building their nestthe soonest of any bird; having young ones commonly by the 25th of March, and sometimes by the middle of that month. The cock, when kept in a cage, whistles and sings all the spring and summer time, at least four or five months in the year; is a stout stout hardy bird; and besides his pleafant natural note, may be taught to whistle almost any tune. When wild in the fields, they feed promiscuoufly upon berries and insects: it is a solitary bird, that, for the most part, flies singly. The sexes are not easily known by their colour while young, but the blackest bird generally proves a cock: the bill of an old cock-bird is of a deep yellow; in the hen the tip and upper part is black; the mouth, in both, is yellowwithin: the hen, and young cock-birds are rather brown, or of a dark russet, than black, and their bellies of an ash-colour; but after the cock has changed his chicken feathers, he becomes coal-black. This bird breeds very soon in the year, and has young ones by the end of March, or sooner: they build their nests very artificially: the outside of moss, flender twigs, bents, and fibres of roots, all very strongly cemented and joined together with clay; plaistering the inside also, and lining ...

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