The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , —the wedges were inserted into the opening , -the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mall or mallet , —the tree nodded to its fall ; but ...
... month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , —the wedges were inserted into the opening , -the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mall or mallet , —the tree nodded to its fall ; but ...
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... months they availed themselves greatly by spinning * A very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards of forty years ' experience ) , that the mean rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured ...
... months they availed themselves greatly by spinning * A very intelligent gentleman assures me ( and he speaks from upwards of forty years ' experience ) , that the mean rain of any place cannot be ascertained till a person has measured ...
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... month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing - point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ground well covered ...
... month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing - point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ground well covered ...
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... month together in the spring : and yet I never saw , or read of toads being observed in the same situation . It is strange that the matter with regard to the venom of toads has not been yet settled . That they are not noxious to some ...
... month together in the spring : and yet I never saw , or read of toads being observed in the same situation . It is strange that the matter with regard to the venom of toads has not been yet settled . That they are not noxious to some ...
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... months a gentleman from London being with us , was amusing himself with a gun , and found , he told us , on an old yew hedge where there were berries , some birds like blackbirds , with rings of white round their necks : a neighbouring ...
... months a gentleman from London being with us , was amusing himself with a gun , and found , he told us , on an old yew hedge where there were berries , some birds like blackbirds , with rings of white round their necks : a neighbouring ...
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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