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" ... and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality, that we look round for the originals, and discover with astonishment that the sole performer in this singular concert is the admirable bird now before us. "
Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected: Including Numerous Characteristic ... - Page 25
by Pierce Egan - 1823
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The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and ...

Decoration and ornament - 1813 - 496 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of swallows and the cackling of hens : amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations...whip-poor-will; while the notes of the kill-deer, blue jay, martin, baltimore, and twenty others succeed, with such imposing reality, that we look round...
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American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Volume 2

Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 464 pages
...screaming of swallows, or the cackling of *Travels, p. 32. Introd. hens; amidst the simple melody of the Robin we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations of the Whippoorwill; while the notes of the Kildeer, Blue Jay, Martin, Baltimore, and twenty others, succeed, with such imposing reality, that...
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American Ornithology, Or The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Volume 1

Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of Swallows, or the cackling of hens; amidst the simple melody of the Robin we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations of the Whippoorwill, while the notes of the Kildeer, Blue Jay, Martin, Baltimore, and twenty others, succeed, with such imposing reality, that...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1820 - 422 pages
...mingled with the screamings of swallows, or the cackling of hens : amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations...the whip-poorwill ; while the notes of the killdeer, blue jay, martin, and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality, that we look round for the...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben ..., Volume 9

Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations of the whip-poor-will; while fhc notes of the kill-deer, blue jay, martin, and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality,...
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American Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 1

Technology - 1825 - 428 pages
...swallows, or cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of robins, we are suddenly surprised with the shrill reiterations of the whip-poor-will, while the notes of the killdeer, blue jay, martin, and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality, that we look round for the...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select, Volume 9

Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 380 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations...the whip-poor-will; while the notes of the killdeer, blue jay, martin, and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality, that we look round for the...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 20

Scotland - 1826 - 1004 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or tbe cackling 01 Item; amidst the. simple melody of tht Robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations of the Whippoorwill ; while the notes of Kildeer, Blue Jay, Martin, Baltimore, and twenty others, succeed, with such imposing reality, that...
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American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the ..., Volume 2

Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 380 pages
...32. Introduction. screaming of swallows, or the cackling of bens ; amidst the simple melody of the robin, we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations...whip-poor-will ; while the notes of the killdeer, blue jay, martin, halt i in ore, and twenty others, succeed, with such imposing reality, that we look...
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The Architecture of Birds

James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1833 - 422 pages
...are mingled with the screaming of swallows, or the cackling of hens ; amidst the simple melody of the robin we are suddenly surprised by the shrill reiterations of the whip-poor-will ; while the notes of the kildeer, the blue jay, martin, baltimore, and twenty others, succeed, with such imposing reality, that...
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