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" Aa (of the German scale} so regularly, that not a single note is wanting. It commonly sings each note four or five times over, and then proceeds imperceptibly to the following quarter-tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American forests... "
The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 186
1825
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The Modern Traveller: (VII, 350 p., [1] h. map. pleg.)

1825 - 382 pages
...sings each note four or five times over, and then proceeds imperceptibly to the following quarter-tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American...least not destitute of the principles of melody." (vol. ip 287.) Mr. Henderson, in his list of Brazilian birds, has the SaUa. " a kind of thrush, and...
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Brazil and Buenos Ayres, Volume 1

Josiah Conder - Argentina - 1825 - 374 pages
...sings each note four or five times over, and then proceeds imperceptibly to the following quarter-tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American...least not destitute of the principles of melody." (vol. ip 287.l Mr. Henderson, in his list of Brazilian birds, has the Sabia, " a kind of thrush, and...
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Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts: Intended to Exhibit a ..., Volume 2

Science - 1825 - 630 pages
...tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American forest all melody and expression, and 10 allow them no preeminence but splendour of plumage....nightingale in clearness and melodiousness of tone, yet this litt'e bird, among others, is a proof that they are at least not destitute of the principles of melody....
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Volume 4

Josiah Conder - Voyages and travels - 1830 - 394 pages
...the songsters of the American forests all melody and expression, and to allow them no pre-eminenie but splendour of plumage. But if, in general, the...they are at least not destitute of the principles of melodv." (vol. ip 287.) Mr Henderson in his list of Brazilian birds, has the Sabia, "a kind of thrush,...
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Philosophy of Nature, Volume 3

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 2002 - 480 pages
...only in respect of their gorgeous colouring. Although it is generally true that the gentle inhabitants of the torrid zone are more distinguished by the beauty of their colours than by the power and richness of their song, and seem to have nothing to match the clear and melodious flutings...
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