. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. t !l PAHTED lUJNTINO. thJ ivet? hhaSuf"n,rn']^ T""!^^^ domesticated in the ho,«es of wi« rrencti inhabitants of New OrlennH, appearintr tn be t\m m.^mt oommor, c.^n bin! they havo. The no^e, often bnnl ^ o Z> ket. from the plantations, for Hale ; either i^ cuTes tTen banks ot the , a few miles below Bayou Fourche took me •no garden, which is spacious and majrnih
. Wilson's American ornithology [microform] : with additions including the birds described by Audubon, Bonaparte, Nuttall, & Richardson. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. t !l PAHTED lUJNTINO. thJ ivet? hhaSuf"n,rn']^ T""!^^^ domesticated in the ho,«es of wi« rrencti inhabitants of New OrlennH, appearintr tn be t\m m.^mt oommor, c.^n bin! they havo. The no^e, often bnnl ^ o Z> ket. from the plantations, for Hale ; either i^ cuTes tTen banks ot the , a few miles below Bayou Fourche took me •no garden, which is spacious and majrnih\,ent, to S?;. me Ms nviary; whrro, ,t,n ...many of onr common^, I obscrvnd severS , two o! ..Inch had nests, ana wore , hntrhinc \V.;ro th.; same attf-ntjori be8town<l on birds ii« on tL r^„n«™ I have no .loubt but they would breed with e qua Icilty anS beroS o^iuaHy numerous and familiar, while tho ri'lmess of t£ »l,l,Z miarht compensate for their inferiority of sonj^ M,! o? hS3 .n H ™":;^'"f'''" ?"'-"P:'; ''"<« I th'nk I have so,3., ro rca" tha? m Holland attempt, have been made to breed , and with sur'cess When the employm,.ntH of the ol' the Unild Statrs bprnm« more sedentary like those of tnrop, the inn "'ent arul a^^^^^^^ of keepmg and rearing bird. ,n this manner, wiKcome .no e fjenera than .t ,h at presnnt, and their manners bette known And I cannot but tinnk, that an intercourse with these little innocent warblers is favnrab e to delicacy of feeling and sontimont "f hunSy ' or I have oh.,.rved th,,. rndoat and most savago softened into benJvo- Six of these birds, u hich I brought with me from New Orleans by sea, soon became reconciled to the cage. In good weather, tie males sang w,t,h groat sprightliness, though'they htd been caught only a few days before my departure, fhey were greedily foml of flies which accompanied us m , nbers during the who
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