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English Singing Birds in England and America by Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt recalls a June birding trip in England with Sir Edward Grey listing 41 song and 23 singer birds in the Itchen valley and New Forest Fro examples include the blackbird nightingale thrush and black cap warbler He compares English birds to American ones later recalling Sagamore Hill birds and praising poet John Burroughs and Miss Dinsmore for nature writing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton
Keats
Wordsworth
Maris
Merile
Merry Green Wood
Jenny Wren
Cock Robin
Edward Grey
London
Southampton
Basingstoke
Itchen
New Forest
Brockenhurst
Lake Como
England
Robin
North Woods
Sagamore Hill
Maryland
Owen Hird
John Burroughs
Madison Cawein
Ernest McGaffy
Caweln
Julia Stockton Dinsmore
Miss Dinsmore
Kentucky
Gulf Coast
Theodore Roosevelt