The Natural History of SelborneW. Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... Perhaps the Naturalist's Calendar is that part of the book that will be found most valuable to those who take up this study . The dates are not the same every year of course , and that is what makes the interest if you keep a pocket ...
... Perhaps the Naturalist's Calendar is that part of the book that will be found most valuable to those who take up this study . The dates are not the same every year of course , and that is what makes the interest if you keep a pocket ...
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... Perhaps it may be necessary that the wings of these birds should not make much resistance or rushing , that they may be enabled to steal through the air unheard upon a nimble and watchful quarry . While I am talking of owls , it may not ...
... Perhaps it may be necessary that the wings of these birds should not make much resistance or rushing , that they may be enabled to steal through the air unheard upon a nimble and watchful quarry . While I am talking of owls , it may not ...
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... Perhaps , hereafter , I may be induced to take the house- swallow under consideration ; and from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines . Eastbourne , Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years ...
... Perhaps , hereafter , I may be induced to take the house- swallow under consideration ; and from that proceed to the rest of the British hirundines . Eastbourne , Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years ...
Inhalt
Letters to Thomas Pennant | 3 |
Letters to the Hon Daines Barrington | 110 |
From the year 1768 to the year 1793 | 291 |
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