...In general color slightly paler than the Vesper Sparrow;smaller than that species; no white tail-feathers; a touch ofyellow before the eye and on the bend of the wing...
Frank M. Chapman 「What Bird is That?」
...However sung, the song, which makes the uplandstuneful all day and every day from April to August, does not vary itsquality, which is as fine as the vesper sparrow's...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
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The field sparrow, as we have seen, prefers neglected old fieldsovergrown with bushes, but the vesper sparrow chooses more broad,open, breezy, grassy country...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...He usually mounts to a fence rail or a tree beforebeginning the repetitions of his lovely, serene vesper which is mostlikely to be heard about sunset, or at sunrise, if you are not asleepy-head...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...How differently he sings! Listen for him some evening after sunsetwhen his simple vesper hymn, clear, plaintive, sweet, rings from thebush where he perches especially for the performance...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...Oregon Vesper Sparrow (P...
Frank M. Chapman 「Color Key to North American Birds」
...One summer, upin the Catskills, I added another name to my listof ecstatic singers—that of the vesper sparrow...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...One day I was lucky enough to see the bird asit was rising to its climax in the air, and to identifyit as the vesper sparrow...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...Meanwhile, the vesper hour drew to a close...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...’ The ancientscalled it Lucifer and Phosphor when it shone as a morning star beforesunrise, and Hesperus and Vesper when it became visible after sunset...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...Homer callsher Callisto the Beautiful; Cicero names her Vesper, the evening star,and Lucifer, the star of the morning—for it was with this divinity aswith Mercury...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
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