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As to swallows ( hirundines rustice being found in a torpid state during the winter
, in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account
worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that ...
As to swallows ( hirundines rustice being found in a torpid state during the winter
, in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account
worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that ...
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Subsist they cannot openly among us and yet elude the eyes of the inquisitive ;
and as to their hiding , no man pretends to have found any of them in a torpid
state in the winter . But with regard to their migration , what difficulties attend that
...
Subsist they cannot openly among us and yet elude the eyes of the inquisitive ;
and as to their hiding , no man pretends to have found any of them in a torpid
state in the winter . But with regard to their migration , what difficulties attend that
...
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... winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid ,
but grew thin and moved much less than at other times & worm . maggots , which
urn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
... winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid ,
but grew thin and moved much less than at other times & worm . maggots , which
urn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
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Birds , it is true , are occasionally found in holes , particularly our summer birds of
passage , in what has been called a torpid state , and have revived upon being
placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a ...
Birds , it is true , are occasionally found in holes , particularly our summer birds of
passage , in what has been called a torpid state , and have revived upon being
placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a ...
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... that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter , * but lay
themselves up like insects and bats , in a torpid state , and slumber away the
more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens
them .
... that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter , * but lay
themselves up like insects and bats , in a torpid state , and slumber away the
more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens
them .
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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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