Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 270
lucking them from the tree and carrying them to its young. In captivity it is best fed upon meal-worms, raw beef scraped with a knife and given very fresh, hard-boiled egg and water, all mixed into a kind of paste. The idea, however, of caging a Nightingale, seems so barbarous, that I shall say… … June, when the young birds are hatched, the song changes into a kind of rough, croaking sound, which is uttered by way of warning, and accompanied with a sharp, snapping sound of the beak. The time when the Nightingales sing loudest and most constantly is during the week or two after their arrival,…
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