. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Yellow Buniinff. Bunting is a very deli- lou in our hedges, where i keeping about twenty on the ground, and lays ith dark chocolate lines, vTite Arabic on the eggs. ry great repute for the lird is regularly fed like id soon becomes exceud- ^ the price of it. K. iry long hind toe. The ted song while suspended jst parts of Europe, Asia, I America. A very iute- NATUKAL UISTOIIY. Sub-family/. . Alaudina. —(Lilt. « Lark.) 291. Arveiirtia (Liit. bdunying to the fields), the Skylark: resting story is told of
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Yellow Buniinff. Bunting is a very deli- lou in our hedges, where i keeping about twenty on the ground, and lays ith dark chocolate lines, vTite Arabic on the eggs. ry great repute for the lird is regularly fed like id soon becomes exceud- ^ the price of it. K. iry long hind toe. The ted song while suspended jst parts of Europe, Asia, I America. A very iute- NATUKAL UISTOIIY. Sub-family/. . Alaudina. —(Lilt. « Lark.) 291. Arveiirtia (Liit. bdunying to the fields), the Skylark: resting story is told of a Skylark that was taken out to America by a poor emigrant, and which used to collect crowds of delighted listener round its cjige. An English settler who hai)pencd to be passing by while the bird was singing, was so affected by the remiriiscences which its song called up, that he oifered his horse and cart for the bird, on the spot. The owner, however, would take no price for it, although most extravagant offers were made, and kept it till his death. The I lird after wiu-ds passed into other hands, but refused to sing until its cage was hung up in the open air. After its death, its skin was sent back^to its native land, and is now stuffed, seated in its old cage, with a suitable inscription attached. The nest is made on the ground, frequently in the print i>\' a horse's foot, and contains five eggs of a greenish-white, tliickly spotted witli brown, liicre are generally two broods in the year, one in May, and tue other in July or August. Immense numbers of these birds are caught annually and sent to the London markets. Dunstable is the most cele- brated place for them. It does not at idl agree with the sense of justice, that these beautifid birds, who charm us with their voices, should be killed to increase the pleasures of the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration an
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