Punch,  18 (1850), 241.

Punch's Birds

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Ornithology, Animal Behaviour, Music

Publications cited:

Bechstein [1837]


    Notes that 'Ornithology, has been running about for ages with a pinch of salt of research between its fingers, to place on the tails of the feathered community'. Upholds the interest of all parts of the bird and takes the bird 'in hand as if it were a member of our civilised community'. Begins its description of 'the whole race of social birds, from the hawk downwards to the duck', with an account of the nightingale, which is a thinly-veiled portrait of Jenny Lind.



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