A Practical Treatise on British Song Birds: in Which is Given Every Information Relative to Their Natural History, Incubation, &c.: Together With the Method of Rearing and Managing Both Old and Young Birds /
A Practical Treatise on British Song Birds: in Which is Given Every Information Relative to Their Natural History, Incubation, &c.: Together With the Method of Rearing and Managing Both Old and Young Birds /
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...soft-billed songsters, and are treated in the same way; indeed, the management of the nightingale and redbreast are so exactly similar, that I must refer the reader to my account of the former bird for any thing that I may have left unsaid in my account of the latter. Robins are taken either with lime twigs, clap nets, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1824 Excerpt: ...soft-billed songsters, and are treated in the same way; indeed, the management of the nightingale and redbreast are so exactly similar, that I must refer the reader to my account of the former bird for any thing that I may have left unsaid in my account of the latter. Robins are taken either with lime twigs, clap nets, brick traps, or trap cages. THE REDSTART. Like the nightingale, the redstart is a bird of passage, arriving in England about the middle of April, and departing the latter end of September or beginning of October. In its disposition it is remarkably shy and solitary, seeking the deepest recesses of the forest, where, in some old wall, or ruined edifice, it builds its nest of moss, dry grass, &c. and lines it with hair and feathers: in this nest it usually deposits four or five eggs of a pale bluish green, which are hatched in May, and the young ones may be taken when ten days old. The redstart has also been known to build in the midst of cities, where, however, it generally chooses the most inaccessible places for its residence; it likewise frequents lofty precipices, and, it is said, that if observed whilst building her nest, she will immediately forsake what she has already done: if her eggs be touched she will also forsake them, and if the young ones be meddled with, she will either leave them to starve, or throw them out of the nest. In its plumage the cock bird is extremely beautiful, the breast, sides, tail, and rump being of a fine scarlet, inclining to orange, except the two middle feathers of the tail, which are brown; the back of the head; neck, and back, are of a deep lead colour the belly and forehead are white, and the throat, cheeks, and round the insertion of the bill, are of a jet black. The female may easily be distinguish...
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