The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarBell & Daldy, 1872 - 416 Seiten |
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... 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 when he was a great boy , some ...
... 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 when he was a great boy , some ...
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... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
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... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times . and maggots , which turn to flesh - flies . FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times . and maggots , which turn to flesh - flies . FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
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... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
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... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in some ...
... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in some ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech birds of passage breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district Edition eggs Engravings feed feet female fieldfares flies flocks forest frequently frost garden Gilbert White ground haunt hedges hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 MARKWICK mentioned migration mild Motacilla natural history naturalist nest never night observed perhaps plants prey rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone curlew summer suppose swallows swifts THOMAS PENNANT tion titmouse Translated trees vast village vols weather WHITE wild wings winter Wolmer woods wren young
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Seite 134 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 256 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Seite 221 - For, to say nothing of half the birds, and some quadrupeds which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves...
Seite 212 - ... anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus:* — Into the body of the tree, a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations, long since forgotten.
Seite 210 - ... his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs and vessels, begging a draught of what he called bee-wine. As he ran about he used to make a humming noise with his lips, resembling the buzzing of bees. This lad was lean and sallow, and of a cadaverous complexion ; and, except in his favourite pursuit, in which he was wonderfully...
Seite 106 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers; Her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Seite 246 - They are the housewife's barometer, foretelling her when it will rain; and are prognostics sometimes, she thinks, of ill or good luck, of the death of a near relation or the approach of an absent lover. By being the constant companions of her solitary hours they naturally become the objects of her superstition.