 | Enos Bronson - Literature, Modern - 1809 - 494 pages
...with which, in early life, we have all been familiar. The visits of this species early in spring to the " box in the garden," or " the hole in the old...tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors" — his soft, pleasing warble on the fences and barn tops — his single melancholy note at the approach... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...with which, in early life, we have all been familiar. The visits of this species early in spring to the " box in the garden," or " the hole in the old...tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors" — his soft, pleasing warbje on the fences and bavn tops — his single melancholy note at the approach... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 464 pages
...weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard and fenceposts. Storms and deep snows sometimes succeeding, he disappears...visiting the box in the garden, or the hole in the old apple-tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors. " When he first begins his amours," says... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1829 - 466 pages
...haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence-posts. Storms and deep snows sometimes succeeding, he disappears tor a time ; but about the middle of March is again seen,...visiting the box in the garden, or the hole in the old apple-tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors. It is highly pleasing to behold his courtship,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 380 pages
...early as the middle of February, if the weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence posts. Storms...garden, or the hole in the old apple tree, the cradle of som« generations of his ancestors. " When he first begins his amours," says a curious and correct... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 372 pages
...usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence posts. Storms and (Jeep snows sometimes succeeding, he disappears for a time...tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors. " When he first begins his amours," says a curious and correct observer, " it is pleasing to behold... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - Birds - 1832 - 576 pages
...early as the middle of February, if the weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence posts. Storms...again seen, accompanied by his mate, visiting the box iu the garden, or the hole in the old apple tree, the cradle of by Mr Swainson, to our author. It remained... | |
 | 1836 - 562 pages
...early as the middle of February, if the weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence- posts. Storms...visiting the box in the garden, or the hole in the old apple-tree, the cradle of some generations of his ancestors.' * * * i when he first begins his amours,'... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animals - 1837 - 344 pages
...the middle of February, or March, if the weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts, the barn, orchard, and fence posts. Storms...sometimes succeeding, he disappears for a time, but is soon seen again accompanied by his mate, visiting the box in the garden, or the hole in the old... | |
 | Readers - 1838 - 302 pages
...of injurious insects which he destroys. About the middle of the third month, he is seen.accompauied by his mate, visiting the box in the garden, or the hole in the old apple tree, the cradle of his ancestors. The spot being fixed on, they begin to clean out, the old nest, and to prepare it for... | |
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Though generally accounted a bird of passage, yet, so early as the middle of February, if the weather be open, he usually makes his appearance about his old haunts — the barn, orchard, and fence posts. Storms and deep snows sometimes succeeding, he... 
