The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 Seiten |
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... of Norton , Oakhanger , and Temple , contains 8506 statute acres , 217 inhabited houses , and 1118 inhabitants , 610 being males , and 508 females . - ED . LETTER VI . HOULD I omit to describe with some 18 NATURAL HISTORY.
... of Norton , Oakhanger , and Temple , contains 8506 statute acres , 217 inhabited houses , and 1118 inhabitants , 610 being males , and 508 females . - ED . LETTER VI . HOULD I omit to describe with some 18 NATURAL HISTORY.
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... Birds of prey occa- sionally feed on insects : thus have I seen a tame kite picking up the female ants full of eggs with much satisfaction . ] - OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . LETTER XI . T will not be without impatience that OF SELBORNE . 45.
... Birds of prey occa- sionally feed on insects : thus have I seen a tame kite picking up the female ants full of eggs with much satisfaction . ] - OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . LETTER XI . T will not be without impatience that OF SELBORNE . 45.
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... female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the mus ...
... female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the mus ...
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... females ; at least fifty to one . This extraordi- nary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaf- finches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , from some ...
... females ; at least fifty to one . This extraordi- nary occurrence brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaf- finches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , from some ...
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... female flocks migrate from the other end of the Island , or whether they come over to us from the con- tinent . We ... females are to be seen , and those few in distinct societies . The males remain in immense flocks , feeding with other ...
... female flocks migrate from the other end of the Island , or whether they come over to us from the con- tinent . We ... females are to be seen , and those few in distinct societies . The males remain in immense flocks , feeding with other ...
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Seite 80 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 408 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 182 - 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.
Seite 199 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Seite 278 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Seite 158 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Seite 184 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...