More than one of these 7 encyclopedias carries each of the following subjects — but every one of them treats it in a sentence or two and then moves on. They are gathered here so the different accounts can sit side by side.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: in natural science, the methodical study, and consequent knowledge of birds, with all that relates to them. It embraces caliology (which treats of nests), oölogy, pterylology, and ornithotomy. Its earliest literature dates from Aristotle (384-322 B. c.), and every succeeding age has added its quota.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: . See Birds
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Aiton's Encyclopedia: a garden bunting of the Old World. It is a small bird of sparrow size, nesting in bushes and on the ground as far north as Lapland, but going south for the winter. Large numbers are taken in the Mediterranean region for the table. In the island of Cyprus, especially, they are caught in a net, and sometimes they are fattened until they are as plump as an egg. At last reports large numbers were seasoned with spices, pickled in vinegar, and packed, 300 to 400 in a cask, for export. Cyprus is credited with exporting several hundred casks of ortolans a year. The ancient Roman epicures considered roasted ortolans a table dainty.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a gardener. In ornithology, Emberiza hortulana, a native of continental Europe and Western Asia, migrating S. in winter, though it is unknown whither, returning about the end of April or the end of May. In appearance and habits it much resembles the yellowhammer, but the head is greenish-gray.
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Collier's New Encyclopedia: a chief of the Seminole In- ; dians born in Florida about 1813; was the son of an Indian trader called Powell. In 1835, while on a visit to Fort King, his wife was claimed as a slave, as being the daughter of a fugitive slave woman, and carried off as such. Osceola resolved upon vengeance, and some months afterward, finding General Thompson outside of the fort, killed him and six other whites in his company, Dec. 28, 1835. Such was the beginning of the second Seminole War, during which Osceola defeated the United States troops in several engagements. On Oct. 23, 1837, while holding a conference under a flag of truce with General Jessup, near St. Augustine, he was treacherously seized and kept in confinement in Fort Moultrie till his death, in 1838.
Aiton's Encyclopedia: PATRIOT AND WARRIOR Died at Fort Moultrie January 30, 1838
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Collier's New Encyclopedia: a mythical Gaelic hero and bard, is said to have lived in the 3d century, and to have been the son of Fingal, a Caledonian hero, whom he accompanied in various military expeditions. His name has derived its celebrity from the publications of Macpherson, who, about 1760, gave to the world, as the "Poems century, is rich in relics and monuments; of Ossian," a remarkable series of bal- コ
Aiton's Encyclopedia: Poems of. See MacPherson.
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