 The cuckoo, as long ago remarked by John Heywood (Epigrams, Black Letter, 1587), begins to sing early In the season with the interval of a minor third; the bird then proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which Its voice breaks,...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Halaman 2691829Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 halaman
...the following curious memoranda from the seventh volume of the Transactions of the Linnean Society. " The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval of a minor third, the bird then proceeds to a mtyor third, next to a fourth, then a. fifth, after which the voice breaks without attaining a minor... | |
 | George Soane - 1847 - 360 halaman
...kooke, kooke, kooke ; six kookes to one koo." The same authority — that is, Forster — informs us "the cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third ; next to a fourth, then to a fifth, after which his voice breaks out without attaining a minor sixth." * Vide Forster's Perennial... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1851 - 534 halaman
...the following curious memoranda from the 7th volume of the Transactions of the Linncean Society. " The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth." This curious circumstance was, however, observed very long ago ; and it forms the subject of an epigram... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 halaman
...the following curious memoranda from the 7th volume of the Transactions of the lAnnaean Society. " The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth." This curious circumstance was, however, observed very long ago ; and it forms the subject of an epigram... | |
 | John Timbs - 1861 - 348 halaman
...; But rather April wet by kind, For Love is full of showers. The Cuckoo. The Cuckoo begins to sing early in the season with the interval of a minor third...his voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth. Heywood, in his epigram " Of Use," 1587, alludes to this remarkable change of note in the cuckoo :... | |
 | 1864 - 580 halaman
...507, where the exact division of the octave is given. According to Mitford (Linn. Trans, vol. vii.), " the cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then to a fifth, after which his voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth," a circumstance long ago... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1866 - 448 halaman
...The editor of the edition of 1822 remarks that the cuckoo begins early in the season with a tray or third, next to a fourth, then a fifth, after which his voice breaks without attaining a sixth; a very old observation, however, seeing it is the subject of an epigram in the scarce black-letter... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1869 - 360 halaman
...next after the quartermaster, and before the quartermaster- sergeant. — Sunday Times, 1856. 2852. THE CUCKOO begins early in the season with the interval...proceeds to a major third, next to a fourth, then to a fifth ; after which his voice breaks, without a minor sixth. This defalcation of the voice is... | |
 | Glasgow sabbath school union - 1870 - 834 halaman
...about the middle of April, and Jeparts in July, the young birds remaining till October. During its * The cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval...his voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth.— Transactions of Linn. Soc., vol. vii. sojourn with us, the cuckoo leads a sort of vagrant, homeless... | |
 | 1870 - 544 halaman
...the key of D." Mr. Timbs, in " Things not Generally 'Known," observes — " The cuckoo begins to sing early in the season with the interval of a minor third,...his voice breaks without attaining a minor sixth." It is clear that these gradations are not universal, or so good an observer as Gardiner would have... | |
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