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" Does not every member of the crow family caw, whether it be the jackdaw, the jay, or the magpie, the rook in some green rookery of the Old World, or the crow of our woods, with its long, melancholy caw that seems to make the silence and solitude deeper... "
Methods of Study in Natural History - Page 123
by Louis Agassiz - 1866 - 319 pages
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The New England Farmer, Volume 14

Agriculture - 1862 - 588 pages
...hosts of ducks quack? Does not every member of the crow family caw, whether it be the jackdaw, the jay, the magpie, the rook, in some green rookery of the...the same kind of voice runs through the whole group. — Ayassiz. For tV Kea England Farmer. POOR AND RICH LAND. MESSRS. EDITORS : — After having resided...
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The Ladies' Companion

Women's periodicals, English - 1862 - 378 pages
...Jackdaw, the Jay, the Magpie, the Rook in some green rookery of the Old World, or the Crow of the American woods, with its long, melancholy caw that seems to...through the whole group. These affinities of the vocal system among animals form a subject well worthy of the deepest study, not only as another character...
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The Wisconsin Farmer, Volume 16

Agriculture - 1864 - 448 pages
...fnuiily — the nightingale, the thrushes, the mocking-birds, the robins---lhey differ in greater or lees perfection of their note, but the same kind of voice runs through the whole group. — Адолпг. Enigma», At. I am composed of fifteen letters. My 13, 14, 12, 2, 9, 6, is a celebrated...
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The New McGuffey Fifth Reader

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1901 - 376 pages
...parrots, so similar in their peculiar utterance. Or, take as an example the web-footed family. Do not all geese and the innumerable host of ducks quack ? Does...the same kind of voice runs through the whole group. Can we suppose that characteristics like these have been communicated from one animal to another ?...
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The New McGuffey First [ -fifth] Reader, Book 5

William Holmes McGuffey - Children's literature - 1901 - 364 pages
...parrots, so similar in their peculiar utterance. Or, take as an example the web-footed family. Do not all geese and the innumerable host of ducks quack ? Does...the same kind of voice runs through the whole group. Can we suppose that characteristics like these have been communicated from one animal to another ?...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 1

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1902 - 526 pages
...roaming the prairie, the musk-ox of the Arctic ice-fields, or the yak of Asia, to the cattle feedirfg in our pastures. Among the birds, this similarity...group. These affinities of the vocal systems among the animals form a subject well worthy of the deepest study, not only as another character by which...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 9

American essays - 1862 - 884 pages
...warblers of the Songster Family,—the Nightingales, the Thrushes, the Mocking-Birds, the Eobins ; they differ in the greater or less perfection of their...subject well worthy of the deepest study, not only *> another character by which to classify the Animal Kingdom correctly, bnt аз bearing indirectly...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 9

American essays - 1862 - 830 pages
...warblers of the Songster Family, — the Nightingales, the Thrushes, the Mocking-Birds, the Rohins ; they differ in the greater or less perfection of their...question of the origin of animals. Can we suppose that characteristies like these have been communicated from one animal to another? When we find that all...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Volume II ...

Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle - Literary Collections - 2008 - 612 pages
...to make the silence and solitude deeper? Compare all the sweet warblers of the songster family—the nightingales, the thrushes, the mocking-birds, the...group. These affinities of the vocal systems among the animals form a subject well worthy of the deepest study, not only as another character by which...
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Ohio Cultivator Vol.XVIII January 1,1862 No.1

Ohio Cultivator Vol.XVIII January 1,1862 No.1 - 1862 - 336 pages
...songster family — the nightingales, the thrashes, the mocking-birds, the robins — they differ in greater or less perfection of their note, but the same kind of voice runsthrough the whole group. — Agassi:. Health, and Disease. Take Care of the Feet. "Of all parts...
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