 The cuckoo, as long ago remarked by John Heywood, begins to sing early in the season with the interval of a minor third ; the bird then proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then to a fifth, after which its voice breaks, without attaining a minor...  The Domestic Habits of Birds - Pàgina 301per James Rennie - 1833 - 379 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1805 - 574 pàgines
...communicated by an eminent professor at Norwich. This gentleman has invariably found the Cuckoo to begin early in the season with the interval of a minor third. The bird then proceeds to a major third, next to ? fourth, then a fifth ; after which his voice breaks, without hit ever attaining a minor sixth.' Mr.... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pàgines
...hedge, and Monotonous, yet sweet, now here, now there; Herself but rarely seen. sings her idle song ' The cuckoo begins early in the season, with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth; then a fifth; after which his voice breaks out without attaining a minor 1 The structure of this bird's... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pàgines
...some bush now sings her idle sung Monotonous, yet sweet, now here, now there; Herself but rarely seen. The Cuckoo begins early in the season, with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks out without attaining a minor sixth. For many particulars relative... | |
 | Thomas Furly Forster - 1827 - 522 pàgines
...bush now sings her idle song Monotonous, yet sweet, now here, now there ; Herself but rarely seen. The Cuckoo begins early in the season, with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks out without attaining a minor sixth. An old Norfolk proverb says,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1829 - 558 pàgines
...Selborne,' quotes from the ' Transactions of the Linnaean Society' (vol. vii.) the following passage : ' The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks, without attaining a minor sixth.' This defalcation of voice... | |
 | 1829 - 476 pàgines
...things, Of death and dolour telling. This superstition is not yet worn out. Quur. Rev. THE CUCKOO. The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth ; after which his voice breaks, without attaining a minor sixth. This defalcation of voice... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 422 pàgines
...Ois. CIianteurs de la Zone Torride, fol. Paris. 1805. JJ.B. to association, for they seldom sing bat in fine weather and when pleased ; and, for the latter...the cuckoo is the minor third, sung downwards, thus : — *J Or as Kircher gives it, II I! Gu - cu, Gu - cu, Gu - cu J . But, according to White of Selborne,... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 pàgines
...curious memorandum is inserted in the seventh volume of the Transactions of the Linnaean Society. " The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth." This curious circumstance was... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pàgines
...the water wagtail, titlsrk, &c., by whom the egg is hatched. Early in the season, the cuckoo begins with the interval of a minor third ; the bird then proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks out without attaining a minor sixth. An old Norfolk proverb says,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pàgines
...the following curious memoranda from the seventh volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. " The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...third, the bird then proceeds to a major third, next to afuiirtk, then a. fifth, after which the voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth." This curious... | |
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