Birds of the wave and woodland

So writes Michael Drayton in the sixteenth century, and how true an observer of Nature the old poet was is proved by the words of our latest ornithologist: "It alights on some t...

It is easy, taking a score of birds, to construct a bird-calendar, a zodiac of birds, that comes very near the actual truths, and almost exhausts the list of more notable land-f...

Indeed, if the superfluous songsters did not go away (and the Wild Birds' Protection Act remained in force), we should be smothered with thrushes. I know, for instance, of a lit...

"_The Eagle of the sea from Atlas soars_ _Or Teneriffe's hoar peak--_ _The watchful helmsman from the stern descries_ _And hails her course--_ _She mounts Alp-high and with her...

Once upon a time rooks were called crows, and as the latter had a very evil reputation, the former suffered for it. Nor is the confusion still extinct, for unfortunately there a...

Which bird-voice in Nature is the most expressive? Is it the ringdove's happy crooning in the green depths of the woodland? or the nightingale's solitary lamenting under the col...

"_Sad Aziola![A] many an eventide_ _Thy music I had heard_ _By wood and stream, meadow and mountain side,_ _And fields and marshes wide,--_ _Such as nor voice, nor lute, nor win...

_The Spectator_ says:--"No man aiming at literary reputation can think his education complete unless he studies Dante, in translations or in the original. No book about Dante ha...

THE BIRDS OF THE MONTHS--SOME RARE BIRDS AND SOME COMMON--JANUARY AND THE FIELDFARE--FEBRURARY AND THE ROOK--MARCH, APRIL, MAY, WITH THE THRUSH, SWALLOW AND NIGHTINGALE--THE TER...

THE BIRDS OF THE MONTHS--SOME RARE BIRDS AND SOME COMMON--JANUARY AND THE FIELDFARE--FEBRUARY AND THE ROOK--MARCH, APRIL, MAY, WITH THE THRUSH, SWALLOW AND NIGHTINGALE--THE TERR...