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... in this forest , about March or April , according to the dryness of the season ,
such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head ,
and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the
underwoods ...
... in this forest , about March or April , according to the dryness of the season ,
such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head ,
and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the
underwoods ...
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I think there is no doubt of it ; for in April , in the first fine weather , they come
trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are
delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory
ground on ...
I think there is no doubt of it ; for in April , in the first fine weather , they come
trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are
delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory
ground on ...
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SELBORNE , April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , —The history of the stone curlew ,
charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more
than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman
in ...
SELBORNE , April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , —The history of the stone curlew ,
charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more
than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman
in ...
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In my letter of April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow -
lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all
respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two other ...
In my letter of April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow -
lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all
respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two other ...
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The ousel is larger than a blackbird , and feeds on haws ; but last autumn ( when
there were no haws ) it fed on yew - berries : in the spring it feeds on ivy - berries ,
which ripen only at that season , in March and April . I must not omit to tell you ...
The ousel is larger than a blackbird , and feeds on haws ; but last autumn ( when
there were no haws ) it fed on yew - berries : in the spring it feeds on ivy - berries ,
which ripen only at that season , in March and April . I must not omit to tell you ...
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| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Bohn's illustrated library |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | G. Bell, 1890 |
| Original von | Northwestern University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Dez. 2010 |
| Länge | 416 Seiten |
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