. The Canadian field-naturalist. Another sang snatches from the old Scotch Ballad, "My Boy Tammie"— P*4- *^r v*- and a more modern spirit echoed Harry Lauder, but the finest tenor was John MacCormack, a Black Minorca Bird, whose musical career was cut short one August morning, but whose clear voice still rings in my memory— w ^v +?+- + u 1 V Cock-a~doodle-doo March, 1915 ff"M f~ ^ Pf~f~tT^ - \ I 1 1/ —i l i L/1 - April, 1915 May, 1915 swinging into the Major Key for July and August and adding a few frills!— n^ Cock-a-doodle-doo Early in August, the Southern migration starts. Chi
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Another sang snatches from the old Scotch Ballad, "My Boy Tammie"— P*4- *^r v*- and a more modern spirit echoed Harry Lauder, but the finest tenor was John MacCormack, a Black Minorca Bird, whose musical career was cut short one August morning, but whose clear voice still rings in my memory— w ^v +?+- + u 1 V Cock-a~doodle-doo March, 1915 ff"M f~ ^ Pf~f~tT^ - \ I 1 1/ —i l i L/1 - April, 1915 May, 1915 swinging into the Major Key for July and August and adding a few frills!— n^ Cock-a-doodle-doo Early in August, the Southern migration starts. Chickadee and Nuthatch hop near the kitchen door and announce all too plainly that Autumn is coming, as if one needed to be reminded, when everywhere the goldenrod and asters are telling the secret, and here and there a birch tree is "donning a dress of gold". Voices in the Night When "Bubo", the Great Horned Owl, passed through the city in September, he sounded as if he were employing the "Loud Speaker", and when the chorus was strengthened by a family of Screech Owls, one felt somehow that this sort of thing did not fit in with our orderly city life. 'Tis a far, far cry from the silent wing-flight of a bird to the pomp and pride of a traffic cop, but what could be sweeter than to hear the Song Sparrows calling to each other in mid-summer-nights'-dream songs, such a duet as this— > > > Cock-a-doodle-doo-oo-oo. 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 Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
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