The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and The Naturalist's Calendar[G.] Bell, 1878 - 416 Seiten |
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... birds that were to be remarked on , and as I rode or walked about , I noted each day the continuance or omission of each bird's song , so that I am as certain of my facts as a man can be of any transaction whatever . " In this manner a ...
... birds that were to be remarked on , and as I rode or walked about , I noted each day the continuance or omission of each bird's song , so that I am as certain of my facts as a man can be of any transaction whatever . " In this manner a ...
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... birds himself ; to my no small disappointment , he answered me in the negative ; but that others as- sured him they did . Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July the eleventh , and young martins ( hi- rundines urbica ) ...
... birds himself ; to my no small disappointment , he answered me in the negative ; but that others as- sured him they did . Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July the eleventh , and young martins ( hi- rundines urbica ) ...
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... birds were to be found . The same search was made many years ago with as little suc- cess . March 2 , 1793 , Mr. White adds , " a single sand martin was seen hovering and playing round the sand - pit at Short - heath , where they abound ...
... birds were to be found . The same search was made many years ago with as little suc- cess . March 2 , 1793 , Mr. White adds , " a single sand martin was seen hovering and playing round the sand - pit at Short - heath , where they abound ...
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... bird . " - ED . † The grey fly - catcher ( Muscicapa grisola ) . Mr. Durham Weir , a correspondent of M'Gillivray's , watched a pair of these birds while they fed their young 537 times in one day , their motions being so rapid that he ...
... bird . " - ED . † The grey fly - catcher ( Muscicapa grisola ) . Mr. Durham Weir , a correspondent of M'Gillivray's , watched a pair of these birds while they fed their young 537 times in one day , their motions being so rapid that he ...
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... birds in part . Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by colour , for though white currants are a much sweeter fruit than red , yet they seldom touch the former till they have devoured every bunch of the latter . Red ...
... birds in part . Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by colour , for though white currants are a much sweeter fruit than red , yet they seldom touch the former till they have devoured every bunch of the latter . Red ...
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Seite 9 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task ; but when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was...
Seite 419 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 30 - On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Seite 396 - Down, where they wheel round in the air, and sport and dive in a playful manner, all the while exerting their voices, and making a loud cawing, which, being blended and softened by the distance that we at the village are below them, becomes a confused noise or chiding; or rather a pleasing murmur, very engaging to the imagination, and not unlike the cry of a pack of hounds in hollow, echoing woods, or the rushing of the wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore.
Seite 212 - The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic work full of knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside of those that I have examined smoothed with any exactness at all ; but is rendered soft...
Seite 53 - ... roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. As this nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively so as to administer a teat to each? Perhaps she opens different places for that purpose, adjusting them again when the business is over; but she could not possibly be contained herself in the ball with her young, which moreover would be daily increasing in bulk. This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant...
Seite 193 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.