The Quarterly Review, Volume 266William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1936 |
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... song is a luxury in which they can indulge on occasions when ground - birds , waders , and pelagic species must be searching for food or evading danger . Com- parative immunity from persecution has endowed the passeres with the ...
... song is a luxury in which they can indulge on occasions when ground - birds , waders , and pelagic species must be searching for food or evading danger . Com- parative immunity from persecution has endowed the passeres with the ...
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... song . But we must note also that both song and display are losing to a certain extent their original sexual significance and tend to become instead regular functions of a bird's life , such as the daily routine of foraging for food ...
... song . But we must note also that both song and display are losing to a certain extent their original sexual significance and tend to become instead regular functions of a bird's life , such as the daily routine of foraging for food ...
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... song of the male shrike is heard but rarely ; had that handsome bird the confident utterance of a nightingale , it might perhaps challenge the latter for lyric supremacy . This diffuse , unaccented type of song is termed sub - song , as ...
... song of the male shrike is heard but rarely ; had that handsome bird the confident utterance of a nightingale , it might perhaps challenge the latter for lyric supremacy . This diffuse , unaccented type of song is termed sub - song , as ...
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