ISBN: 9781130940794

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 732 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… Mehr…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 732 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.5in.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. 1816 Excerpt: . . . fly; this raising its note as it soars, and lowering it till it quite dies away as it descends. It will often soar to such a height, that we are charmed with the music when we lose light of the songster; it also begins its song before the earliest dawn. Milton, in his Allegro, most beautifully expresses these circumstances; and bishop Newton observes, that the beautiful scene that Milton exhibits of rural cheerfulness, not only gives us a fine picture of the regularity of his life, but of the innocency of his own mind. It continues its harmony several months, beginning early in the spring, on pairing. In the winter they afiemble in vast flocks, grow very sal, and are taken in great numbers for our tables. They build their nest on the ground, beneath some clod, forming it of hay, dry fibres, and c. and lay 4 or 5 eggs. The place these birds are taken in the greatest quantity, is the neighbourhood of Dunstable; the season begins about the 12th of September, and ends the 15th of February; and during that space about 4000 dozen are caught, which supply the m;irkets of tin metropolis. See BirdBird-catching. Vastly greater numbers, however, are at times caught in different parts of Germany, where there is an excise upon them, lteyster says, that the excise alone produces 6000 dollars (about L 1400. Sterling) every year to the city of Leipfic; whose larks are famous all over Germany as having the most delicate flavour. But it is not only at Leipfic that they are taisen in such numbers, but also in the country about Naumburg, Merseburg, Halle, and other parts. 4. Alauda Campestris has one half of its chief feathers of the wings brown, except two in the middle which are white, and the throat and breast are yellowish. j. Alauda Cristata: the chief tail-feathers are. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<