. The bird . Page 270. The master-mghtingcde.—I owe this anecdote to alady well entitled to a judgment upon such questions—to MadameGarcia Viardot (the gieat singer). The Russian peasants, who pos-sess a fine-ear and a keen sensibility for Nature (compared with herharshness towards them), said, when they occasionally heard theSpanish cantatrice: The nightingale does not sing so Page 273. Still the little one hesitates, &c.— One day I waswalking with my son in the neighbourhood of Montier. We perceivedtowards the north, on the Little Saleve, an eagle emerging from the 22 338 ILLUSTRATIVE
. The bird . Page 270. The master-mghtingcde.—I owe this anecdote to alady well entitled to a judgment upon such questions—to MadameGarcia Viardot (the gieat singer). The Russian peasants, who pos-sess a fine-ear and a keen sensibility for Nature (compared with herharshness towards them), said, when they occasionally heard theSpanish cantatrice: The nightingale does not sing so Page 273. Still the little one hesitates, &c.— One day I waswalking with my son in the neighbourhood of Montier. We perceivedtowards the north, on the Little Saleve, an eagle emerging from the 22 338 ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES. •windings of the rocks. When he was tolerably near the Great Salevehe halted, and two eaglets, which he had carried on his back, at-tempted to fly, at first very close to their teacher, and in narrowcircles; then, a few minutes afterwards, feeling fatigued, theyreturned to rest upon his back. Gradually their essays were pro-tracted, and at the close of the lesson the eaglets effected some muchmore important flights, still under the eyes of their teacher of gym-nastics. After about an hours occupation the two scholars resumedtheir post on the paternal back, and the eagle returned to the rockfrom which he had started. (M. Chenvieres, of Geneva.) Page 804. The small Chili falcon (cernicula).—I extract thisstatement from a new, curious, but little known work, wri
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