Word: grosbeak
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...secretary. All it did was answer the phone and deliver a recording of Mrs. Emery's voice. "This is the voice of Audubon," the record said last Saturday. "There is a Barrow's Golden eye at Clucester near the Fisherman's statue, a Lark Sparrow and a Black-Headed Grosbeak in Ipswich. A Snow Goose has been seen at Plum Island, and the Canada Jay is still at Orange..." So far so good. But then the machine went on: "Please leave your message after the double signal," and follows this with a beautiful thirty second silence, compliments of Audubon, during...
Putting It Across. By Metropolitan Opera standards, Songstress Clooney is as innocent of musical training as a rose-breasted grosbeak. She never bothered to learn to read notes ("I can tell whether the tune goes up or down, but I can't tell how far"). She disdains such long-hair affectations as warming up her voice ("What have I got to warm up?"). But in common with the new postwar generation of ballad vendors, including such contemporaries as Patti Page (Mercury), Peggy Lee (Decca), Joni James (M-G-M), Jo Stafford and Doris Day (both Columbia), Rosemary knows...
...home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
...clear from the depths of the forest. Other fine singers are the brown thrush, the purple finch, and the winter wren. Most of the singers are finches. As a rule these are small and insignificant, but there are some brilliant exceptions, as the goldfinch and the rose breasted grosbeak. Next in rank come the warblers. These are very little known as they are chiefly forest birds and all go under the name of "the little gray birds," though some of them have the most gorgeous red and yellow plumage. Two of the warblers are fine singers, the water thrush...
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