The Natural History of SelborneJ.M. Dent, 1906 - 255 Seiten |
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... Gibraltar and Barbary . Scopoli's characters of his ordines and genera are clear , just , and expressive , and much in the spirit of Linnæus . These few remarks are the result of my first perusal of Scopoli's Annus Primus . The bane of ...
... Gibraltar and Barbary . Scopoli's characters of his ordines and genera are clear , just , and expressive , and much in the spirit of Linnæus . These few remarks are the result of my first perusal of Scopoli's Annus Primus . The bane of ...
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... Gibraltar is the great rendezvous , and place of observation , from whence they take their departure each way towards Europe or Africa . It is therefore no mean discovery , I think , to find that our small short - winged summer birds of ...
... Gibraltar is the great rendezvous , and place of observation , from whence they take their departure each way towards Europe or Africa . It is therefore no mean discovery , I think , to find that our small short - winged summer birds of ...
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... Gibraltar . And I with the more confidence advance this obvious remark , because my brother has always found that some of his birds , and particularly the swallow kind , are very sparing of their pains in crossing the Mediterranean ...
... Gibraltar . And I with the more confidence advance this obvious remark , because my brother has always found that some of his birds , and particularly the swallow kind , are very sparing of their pains in crossing the Mediterranean ...
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... Gibraltar would suffer no vulture or eagle to rest near their station , but would drive them from the hill with an amazing fury : even the blue thrush at the season of breeding would dart out from the clefts of the rocks to chase away ...
... Gibraltar would suffer no vulture or eagle to rest near their station , but would drive them from the hill with an amazing fury : even the blue thrush at the season of breeding would dart out from the clefts of the rocks to chase away ...
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... Gibraltar , excepted ; for it is so disposed as to carry omnes quatuor digitos anticos " all its four toes forward ; besides the least toe , which should be the back- toe , consists of one bone alone , and the other three only of two ...
... Gibraltar , excepted ; for it is so disposed as to carry omnes quatuor digitos anticos " all its four toes forward ; besides the least toe , which should be the back- toe , consists of one bone alone , and the other three only of two ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn BARRINGTON DEAR SIR bird of passage birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR DAINES BARRINGTON Selborne district eggs ESQUIRE Selborne feet female fieldfares flocks forest frequently frost garden gentleman Gibraltar Gilbert White Gross-beak ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON hoopoes house-martins hundred inches insects late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins mentioned migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls parish perhaps ponds procured quadrupeds RAII rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels says season seems seen sing snow species spring stone curlew strange summer suppose Sussex swallow swift tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse trees vast village weather White white-throat wild willow-wren wings winter Wolmer Wolmer-forest wonder Woodlark woods young
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Seite 252 - 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 175 - ... afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus: — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten.
Seite 170 - ... and seldom failing to strip them with the nicest regularity. When these junci are thus far prepared, they must lie out on the grass to be bleached, and take the dew for some nights, and afterwards be dried in the sun. Some address is required in dipping these rushes in the scalding fat or grease ; but this knack also is to be attained by practice.
Seite 175 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is 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 252 - The country people began to look with a superstitious awe at the red lowering aspect of the sun ; and indeed there was reason for the most enlightened person to be apprehensive, for, all the while, Calabria and part of the Isle of Sicily were torn and convulsed with earthquakes, and about that juncture a volcano sprang out of the sea on the coast of Norway.
Seite 185 - For, to say nothing of half the .birds, >and some quadrupeds, which are almost entirely supported by them, worms seem to be the great promoters of vegetation, which would proceed but lamely without them, by boring, perforating, and loosening the soil, and rendering it pervious to rains and the fibres of plants, by drawing straws and stalks of leaves and twigs into it, and, most of all, by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth called worm- casts, which, being their excrement, is a fine...
Seite 184 - ... from the procuring her teats to be drawn, which were too much distended with milk, till, from habit, she became as much delighted with this foundling as if it had been her real offspring.
Seite 122 - 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 216 - As one should suppose, from the burning atmosphere which they inhabit, they are a thirsty race, and show a great propensity for liquids, being found frequently drowned in pans of water, milk, broth, or the like. Whatever is moist they affect; and, therefore, often gnaw holes in wet woollen stockings and aprons that are hung to the fire : they are the housewife's barometer, foretelling her when it will rain ; and are prognostic sometimes, she thinks, of ill or good luck ; of the death of a near relation,...