The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... doubt of it : for , in April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once , into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on ...
... doubt of it : for , in April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once , into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on ...
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... doubt whether it differs from his Mus terrestris ; which if it be , as he allows , the " Mus agrestis capite grandi brachyurus , " of Ray , is widely different from the water - rat , both in size , make , and manner of life . As to the ...
... doubt whether it differs from his Mus terrestris ; which if it be , as he allows , the " Mus agrestis capite grandi brachyurus , " of Ray , is widely different from the water - rat , both in size , make , and manner of life . As to the ...
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... doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the Mus domesticus medius of Ray ; and have more of the squirrel or dormouse colour ; their belly is white , a straight line along their sides ...
... doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the Mus domesticus medius of Ray ; and have more of the squirrel or dormouse colour ; their belly is white , a straight line along their sides ...
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... doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . Mr. Ray observed that at Malta the owners slit up the nostrils of such asses as were hard worked for they , being naturally straight or small , did not admit air ...
... doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . Mr. Ray observed that at Malta the owners slit up the nostrils of such asses as were hard worked for they , being naturally straight or small , did not admit air ...
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... doubt they were . A few years ago I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year it began to look dingy ; and , blackening every succeeding year , it became ...
... doubt they were . A few years ago I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year it began to look dingy ; and , blackening every succeeding year , it became ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young