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Common terms and phrasesAnts Beauty Beginning Bigness Bill Black-Bird boil Bottom Branchers Bread Breast and Belly breed bring build their Nest Bullfinch Canary Canary-Bird Canary-Seed catch Chaffinch Clap-Nets Cock and Hen Cock-Bird Colour Cramp delight Description and Character Drachms Drams dry'd dusky England Feathers feed Flesh Meat Food four or five fresh give Goldfinch Grass Gravel green hath Head healthful Bird Hedge Hemp Inches Insects keep them clean Kind known likewise Linnet Liquorice little Saffron lour Manner of building Marks Meal-Worms melodious mixed Months Moss Moulting nerally Nightingale Notes Number observe perceive Place pretty proving a Cock Rape Rape-Seed Redwing Rump scalded Scouring Seed Sheep's Heart sing Sky-Lark small Birds soft Meat sometimes Song soon Sort Spots Tail taken Thing three or four Throat Thrush Trees twelve Days old Twite Victuals warm Water whistle white Bread Wings Wood Wood-Larks Worms Yellow young Birds Popular passagesPage 9 - The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings. Page 92 - They build a.pretty nest, about which they will sometimes be so industrious, as to begin and finish it in one day, though they are generally two or three days in making their nest ; the hen lays commonly four or five eggs, and sits fourteen days. Page 89 - Breeding and Management of Canary Birds. Canary birds, that are kept tame, will breed three or four times in the year ; they usually begin in April and breed in May and June, though sometimes in July and August. - Towards the middle of March, begin to... Page 2 - It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half. Page 92 - They build a pretty neft, about which they will fometimes be fo induftrious, as to begin and fmilli it in one day ; though they are generally two or three days in making their neft. The hen lays commonly four or five eggs, and fits fourteen days. When the young are hatched, leave them to the care of the old ones to nurfe and bring up, till they can fly and feed themfelves. The hen, as I... Page 23 - ... dirty white. The tail is long, the bill strong and slightly curved, eye of a greyish brown, the pupil encircled by a light-colored ring. A bare space extends from the eye to the back of the neck, of a pale bluish color tinged with red. The specimen I have now before me measures twenty-three inches from the tip of his bill to the end of his tail. The tail is eleven and a quarter inches, the bill two and a half inches. I have frequently met with this bird in my travels over the country, and have... Page 93 - ... scalded rapeseed ; when it is boiled soft, bruise the seed fine, and put a little maw seed amongst it, and mix it all together, and give them a sufficient quantity fresh every day ; never let it be stale or sour ; besides this, give them a little scalded rapeseed, and a little rape and canary by itself. You may keep them to this diet till they have done moulting, and afterwards feed them as you do the old ones, unless at any time th,ey are sick, then continue it. Page 89 - March or the beginning of April, put them into the breeding cage for that use ; let it be full large, so that the birds may have the more room to fly and exercise themselves ; let there be two boxes in the cage for the hen to build in, because she will sometimes... Page 88 - March, begin to match your birds, putting one cock and hen into the breedingcage, which should be large, so that the birds may have room to fly and exercise themselves. Place two boxes or little basket-nests in the cage, for the hen to lay her eggs in, because she will sometimes... Bibliographic information
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