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The martins , red - wings and fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an
uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds ! [ It is not easy to discover
whether White really believed in the hybernation of swallows or not ; he clings to
the idea ...
The martins , red - wings and fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an
uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds ! [ It is not easy to discover
whether White really believed in the hybernation of swallows or not ; he clings to
the idea ...
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But they soon settle again in heaps , and pulling their feathers and lifting up their
wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend
the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were , consulting ...
But they soon settle again in heaps , and pulling their feathers and lifting up their
wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend
the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were , consulting ...
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Its flight is rapid and undulating , gliding among the branches with great agility in
pursuit of insects , which it follows on the wing , chirping as it flies along . It
perches on lofty branches of trees . Its song is modulated and short , being a
repetition ...
Its flight is rapid and undulating , gliding among the branches with great agility in
pursuit of insects , which it follows on the wing , chirping as it flies along . It
perches on lofty branches of trees . Its song is modulated and short , being a
repetition ...
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It is very amusing to see the cock bird on wing at that time , and to hear his piping
and humming notes . to me . as you and diver : it answers. I have had no
opportunity yet of procuring any of those mice which I mentioned to you in town .
It is very amusing to see the cock bird on wing at that time , and to hear his piping
and humming notes . to me . as you and diver : it answers. I have had no
opportunity yet of procuring any of those mice which I mentioned to you in town .
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In severe weather , fieldfares , red - wings , skylarks , and tit - larks , resort to
watered meadows for food ; the latter wades up to its belly in pursuit of the pupæ
of insects , and runs along upon the floating grass and weeds . Many gnats are
on ...
In severe weather , fieldfares , red - wings , skylarks , and tit - larks , resort to
watered meadows for food ; the latter wades up to its belly in pursuit of the pupæ
of insects , and runs along upon the floating grass and weeds . Many gnats are
on ...
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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 406 - 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 180 - 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 197 - 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 276 - ... 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 156 - 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 182 - 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...
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| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory Notes |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | Bell and Daldy, 1862 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Sept. 2006 |
| Länge | 426 Seiten |
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