... distance ; and when close at your ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way off. Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched, I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta... An Outline of the Smaller British Birds - Page 28by Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1833 - 168 pagesFull view - About this book
| Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...The grasshopper-lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at an hundred yards distance ; and, when close at your ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 pages
...secondaries at the tip : length six inches and a half; weight 5.J drams. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at one hundred yards distance ; and when close to your ear, is scarcely any louder than when a great way... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 392 pages
...species. Its bill is slender and dusk7. The upper p'arts of the body are of a amusing than the sibilous whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though it may be an hundred yards distant; and, when close at your ear, is scarcely any louder than when a... | |
| James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...soft, clear, and melodious. Nothing, says the Rev. Mr. White, can be more amusing than the sibilous whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though it may be a hundred yards distant; and when close at your ear, is scarcely any louder than when a great... | |
| Stephen Glover - Derbyshire (England) - 1831 - 510 pages
...secondaries at the tip : length six inches and a half; weight 5¿ drams. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at one hundred yards distance ; and when close to your ear, is scarcely any louder than when a great way... | |
| Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...The grasshopper lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday.^ Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at an hundred yards' distance ; and, when close at your ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...The GRASSHOPPER LARK began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems...ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way off. Had I not been a little acquainted with insects, and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched,... | |
| Frederick William N. Bayley - 1833 - 902 pages
...deceive an unpractised ear. " Nothing can be more amusing,'' says the delightful historian of Selbourne, than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at an hundred yards distance, and when close to your ear is scarce any louder than a great way off." Our... | |
| Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...The grasshopper lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday.* Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at an hundred yards' distance ; and, when close at your ear, is scarcely any louder than when a great... | |
| Neville Wood - Birds - 1836 - 436 pages
...Sibilous Brakehopper* began his singular note in my fields last Saturday. Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this little bird, which seems to be close by, though at an hundred yards distance ; and, when close at your ear, is scarce any louder than when a great way... | |
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