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Bechstein, on female birds choosing the best singers among the males; on rivalry in song-birds; on the singing of female birds; on birds acquiring the songs of other birds; on pairing the canary and siskin; on a sub-variety of the monk pigeon; on spurred hens. Beddoe, Dr., on causes of difference in stature. Bee-eater.
Arthur jumped at his book at first, because there were Japanese pictures in it, and Uncle Charley had just been staying with us, and had brought beautiful Japanese pictures with him, and had told us Japanese fairy tales, and they were as good as Bechstein. So Arthur was full of Japan.
"Shall we have tea?" Helen suggested, after Sarah had performed on the Bechstein. "Yes. Let me help you, do, dearest." They wandered off to the kitchens, and while they were seated at the kitchen-table, sipping tea, side by side, Sarah said: "Now if you want an idea, I've got a really good one for you." "For me? What sort of an idea?" "I'll tell you. You know Mrs. Wiltshire is dead." "I don't.
I went with Watkyns, with whom I was having lunch in his studio on the Walk. He discovered one of Mrs. Chase's cards on his mantel-piece and as it is her rule to bring a friend, we went. In spite of her worship of painters for Enderby's sake, Mrs. Chase really adores music and musicians. She has a Bechstein grand standing on an oak floor polished like glass, with tiger and bear-skins lying about.
She talked: "You know that big black box the Australian left in my room ever so long ago? ... I do think furs make a woman look old. ... That's Bechstein come in now. ... I was wondering what you looked like when you were a little boy, Jacob." She nibbled her roll and looked at him. "Jacob. You're like one of those statues. ... I think there are lovely things in the British Museum, don't you?
I could not make up my mind which makers I really preferred, Erard, Broadwood, Collard, or Bechstein; so by degrees I collected one of each. And after all I think I play best upon the little cottage piano we had in the school-room at home. It stands in my boudoir now. I seem more accustomed to its notes, or it lends itself better to my way of playing." "Thank you, Myra," said Jane.
Professor Ansted includes it in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey. There is one specimen in the Museum. PEEWIT. Vanellus vulgaris, Bechstein. French, "Vanneau huppé." The Peewit is a common and rather numerous autumn and winter visitant to all the Islands, though I have never seen it in such large flocks as in some parts of England, especially in Somerset.
If the present long close season is to be continued, the Mute Swan might well be added to the somewhat unreasonable list of birds in the Guernsey Sea-birds Act; at all events, Swans would be better worth preserving than Plongeons or Cormorants. HOOPER. Cygnus musicus, Bechstein. French, "Cygne sauvage."
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