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For instance , we are told that on the 21st of June , house - martins , which had
laid their eggs in an old nest , had hatched them , and that when this is the case
they get the start of those that build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He
speaks ...
For instance , we are told that on the 21st of June , house - martins , which had
laid their eggs in an old nest , had hatched them , and that when this is the case
they get the start of those that build new ones by ten days or a fortnight . He
speaks ...
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... + Emerging gently from the leafy dell , * * A kind of arbour on the side of a hill .
† A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on occasion
to appear in the character of a hermit . By fancy plann'd ; as once th ' inventive ...
... + Emerging gently from the leafy dell , * * A kind of arbour on the side of a hill .
† A grotesque building , contrived by a young gentleman , who used on occasion
to appear in the character of a hermit . By fancy plann'd ; as once th ' inventive ...
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Though the white stone will not bear wet , yet in every quarry , at intervals , there
are thin strata of blue rag , which resist rain and frost , and are excellent for
pitching of stables , paths , and courts , and for building of dry walls against banks
, a ...
Though the white stone will not bear wet , yet in every quarry , at intervals , there
are thin strata of blue rag , which resist rain and frost , and are excellent for
pitching of stables , paths , and courts , and for building of dry walls against banks
, a ...
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They never enter into houses ; are carried into ricks and barns with the sheaves ;
abound in harvest ; and build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the
ground , and sometimes in thistles . They breed as many as eight in a litter , in a ...
They never enter into houses ; are carried into ricks and barns with the sheaves ;
abound in harvest ; and build their nests amidst the straws of the corn above the
ground , and sometimes in thistles . They breed as many as eight in a litter , in a ...
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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 part in a similar situation ; but he thinks
that , if the eggs were transposed into the nest of some nearly -related species ,
and ...
Each bird , Mr. Herbert says , builds its nest in the same form and of the same
materials as its parent , and for the most part in a similar situation ; but he thinks
that , if the eggs were transposed into the nest of some nearly -related species ,
and ...
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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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