 The fly-catcher is of all our summer birds the most mute and the most familiar ; it also appears the last of any. It builds in a vine, or a sweetbriar, against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often...  An Outline of the Smaller British Birds - Page 38by Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1833 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Birds - 1816 - 338 pages
...builds in a vine or sweetbriar, against the wall of a house, or on the end of a beam, and sometimes close to the post of a door where people are going in and out all day long : it returns to the same place year after year. The female lays four or five eggs, closely spotted... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...grisola) is the most mute and familiar of all our summer birds; it builds in a vine or sweet briar, against the wall of a house, or on the end of a beam, and sometimes close to the post of a door, where people are going in and out all day long : it returns... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...sweetbriar against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door where people...out all day long. This bird does not make the least pretensions to song; but uses a little inward wailing note when it thinks its young ' in danger from... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...attentively observing me for some time, and the male also. a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door where people are going in and out all day long. The bird does not make the least pretension to song, but uses a little inward wailing note when it... | |
 | Birds - 1834 - 700 pages
...sweet-brier, against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door where people...out all day long. This bird does not make the least pretensions to song ; but uses a little inward, wailing note, when it thinks its young in danger from... | |
 | 1841 - 588 pages
...sweetbrier against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door, where people are going in and out all day long." We observed a pair for several years, which built in a trellised porch covered with woodbine and the... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1842 - 342 pages
...sweet, brier against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door, where people are going in and out all day long. The bird does not make the least pretension to song, but uses a little inward wailing note when it... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pages
...wall of a house, or * This is the case with one in the possession of the Author. '(' Musicapa irisola. in the hole of a wall, and often close to the post...door where people are going in and out all day long. It does not make the least pretensions to song, but uses a little inward wailing note, when it thinks... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...sweetbriar against the wall of a house, or in the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door, where people are going in and out all day long." We observed a pair for several years, which built in a trellised porch covered with woodbine and the... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - Natural history - 1851 - 534 pages
...sweet-brier, against the wall of a house, or ia the hole of a wall, or on the end of a beam or plate, and often close to the post of a door where people...out all day long. This bird does not make the least * So far from this being the case, a white-throat built its nest in the ironwork on the top of a lamp... | |
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