. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. Skylark. 149. In the winter the larks it is very noticeable that this inspiring singer is the bird of solitude; and he is notably unsocial all through the spring and summer, each one keeping to ,j y\M! his own nest and ground, a thing in which the young ones even follow the par- ental example, giving the old ones much trouble to find and feed the little things in places apart from each other. Yet they do it. go in coveys, which makes it more easy for the bird- catchers to find them in many cases. Corncrakes now f
. Hours in my garden, and other nature-sketches. With 138 illus. Natural history. Skylark. 149. In the winter the larks it is very noticeable that this inspiring singer is the bird of solitude; and he is notably unsocial all through the spring and summer, each one keeping to ,j y\M! his own nest and ground, a thing in which the young ones even follow the par- ental example, giving the old ones much trouble to find and feed the little things in places apart from each other. Yet they do it. go in coveys, which makes it more easy for the bird- catchers to find them in many cases. Corncrakes now fill the pauses with their harsh mono- tonous cry—crek, crek, crek, or something like it; butterflies hover over the blooming wheat, and now and then alight, and the wood- doves range round the field at certain times. The rabbits dart about, and go with their hirpling kind of walk down the intervals between the "stetches," and now and then a mole is seen. The rooks come and make observations in the pauses of their work in the green- cropped fields beyond. A most curious and forecasting bird is the rook; little indeed escapes his Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay), 1839-1905. New York, Macmillan & Co.
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