 | William Baird - 1858 - 642 pàgines
...species, and is remarkable for its vocal powers and faculty of imitation. Its voice is full, strong, musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from...wood thrush to the savage scream of the bald eagle. Those who have heard this bird in his native woods, assert that in song it is far beyond the nightingale.... | |
 | Denis Florence MacCarthy - 1858 - 482 pàgines
...Now cooing the soft earth-notes of the dove. The Mocking Bird (Turdux polyglothis). — "His voice is full, strong, and musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the clear, mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage scream of the eagle." — Ibid., vol. ip 1 68. " So perfect are his imitations,... | |
 | 1859 - 852 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his geniua. To these qualities we may add that of a voice full,...every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. In measure and accent, he faithfully f Hows his... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of a voice full,...every modulation, from the clear, mellow tones of the wood-thrush, to the savage scream of the bald eagle. In measure and accent he faithfully follows his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of a voice full,...every modulation, from the clear, mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. In measure and accent, he faithfully follows his... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pàgines
...within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these quali ties we may add that of a voice full, strong, and musical,...clear, mellow tones of the wood thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. tall bush or half-grown tree, in the dawn of dewy morning, while tin woods... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of a voice, full,...every modulation, from the clear mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage scream of the bald eagle. In measure and accent he faithfully follows his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of a voice full,...every modulation, from the clear, mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. In measure and accent, he faithfully follows his... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pàgines
...within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genins. To these qualitics we may add that of a voice full, strong, and musical, and capable of almost every modulation, from the elear, mellow tones of the wood-thrush to the savage sereams of the bald eagl*. In measure and accent,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 390 pàgines
...feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the peculiarity of his genius. To these qualities we may add that of a voice full,...clear, mellow tones of the wood thrush to the savage screams of the bald eagle. 2. In measure and accent he faithfully follows his originals. In force and... | |
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The ease, elegance, and rapidity of his movements, the animation of his eye, and the intelligence he displays in listening and laying up lessons from almost every species of the feathered creation within his hearing, are really surprising, and mark the... 
