Instead, that matchless songster of sweet summer days appeared, and made the woods ring with his sharp metallic “click.
This bird is the sweetest songster of New Zealand, but is not distinguished by its plumage, which is a yellowish olive with a dark bluish shade on each side of the head.
So the parson-bird, the tui, The white-banded songster tui, In the morning wakes the woodlands With his customary music.
Though we all four looked about in the direction whence the notes came, the mysterious songster could not be discovered.
All who heard this never-to-be-forgotten song for the first time were up and on their feet in an instant; but the tiny songster which was then filling the azure vault with music was nowhere to be seen.
The whirr of the partridge or pheasant stirs the sportsman's blood, and upon every tree some feathered songster pours forth his song.
The lark is a more marvelous songster than the bobolink only on account of his soaring flight and the sustained copiousness of his song.
The bestsongster on the Pampas is a species of mocking-bird, called by the inhabitants calandria.
The best songster of the tribe is the Vervain humming-bird, found in the West India Islands.
This is the organ-bird--the most remarkable songster by far (says Bates) of the Amazonian forests.
Nature's songster is the worst sort of songster I know.
Scouts are the birds' police, and wo betide the lad who is caught with a nest and eggs, or the limp corpse of some feathered songster that he has slaughtered.
He is one of the most remarkable of the American birds, and is generally considered the finest songster in the New England forest.
Late in August, when other birds have mostly become silent, he is sometimes the only songster in the wood.
I kept on to the Brow, and some time afterward was at Mabbitt's Spring, quenching my thirst with a draught of liquid iron rust, when a third songster of the same kind struck up his tune.
It was a pleasure to hear this great songster of the South singing above these thousands of Northern graves.
Place the feathered songster near; Let him trill for baby’s ear.
The chubby songster found time to proffer brief explanations in asides.
The songster waved a hand uniting Terry and the eyes in informal introduction.
From morn till the meridian day, From noon till Sol has sunk away, One ceaseless song, one grateful lay, Each feather'd songster raises.
And then as the Blackbird reflected, he all at once called to mind who it was,--this songster of the night!
Yes, this songster was their own particular Blackbird, there was no doubt about it; and did it not behove him to build his nest as near their home as he possibly could?
And sitting thus amid the stark, silent trees, above the wet, cold earth, with the chill of winter still in the air, there is no fitter or sweeter songster in the whole round year.
It has more claim to be considered a songster than the Spotted Flycatcher.
When you have penetrated far into Macoushia, you hear the pretty songster called troupiale pour forth a variety of sweet and plaintive notes.
It was charming to hear the sweet and plaintive notes of this pretty songster of the wilds.
A female relation of its owner tried to entrap the bird, by putting on its master's hat before approaching the cage; but this device was useless, the ungallant little songster proved as obstinate as ever.
The brilliantsongster was pouring out his heart in that fine cry of strength and hope which he sends resounding over hill and vale.
The songster bent farther forward on the twig, and suddenly with a downward plunge shot straight toward them; but just as his tiny feet touched the fingers, turned as the squirrel had done, and uttering a loud cry of terror flew away.
The progeny of the birds would probably have returned to Connecticut to breed, and their progeny, or a part of them, the same, till in time the famous songster would have become a regular visitant to New England.
