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I could observe their proceedings as I lay in bed , and also from various parts of
my room After the first hatch had taken flight , the parent birds repaired the nest
and sat again . The young ones were brought to life in September , and were
able ...
I could observe their proceedings as I lay in bed , and also from various parts of
my room After the first hatch had taken flight , the parent birds repaired the nest
and sat again . The young ones were brought to life in September , and were
able ...
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A gentleman , curious in birds , wrote me word that his servant had shot one last
January , in that severe weather ... It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be
called an English bird ; and yet I see by Ray's Philosophical Letters that great ...
A gentleman , curious in birds , wrote me word that his servant had shot one last
January , in that severe weather ... It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be
called an English bird ; and yet I see by Ray's Philosophical Letters that great ...
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Each bird , Mr. Herbert says , builds its nest in the same form and of the same
materials as its parent , and for the most ... they would doubtless make their nests
like those of the birds which had reared them , and would also adopt their notes .
Each bird , Mr. Herbert says , builds its nest in the same form and of the same
materials as its parent , and for the most ... they would doubtless make their nests
like those of the birds which had reared them , and would also adopt their notes .
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I What Hasselquist says on that subject is remarkable ; there were little short -
winged birds frequently coming on board the ship all the way from our Channel
quite up to the Levant , especially before squally weather . What you suggest with
...
I What Hasselquist says on that subject is remarkable ; there were little short -
winged birds frequently coming on board the ship all the way from our Channel
quite up to the Levant , especially before squally weather . What you suggest with
...
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The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . ... W . J.
+ This sentence has probably been the cause of the murder of numbers of these
most innocent little birds , which are in truth peculiarly the gardener's friends .
The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . ... W . J.
+ This sentence has probably been the cause of the murder of numbers of these
most innocent little birds , which are in truth peculiarly the gardener's friends .
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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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