The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar, EtcW.S. Orr and Company, 1850 - 418 Seiten |
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... nest - holes , till it is absolutely like a honey - comb . This modern erection , by the way , has most unaccountably fallen under the censure of an anonymous visitor of Selborne , whose lucubrations have been quoted in " Jesse's ...
... nest - holes , till it is absolutely like a honey - comb . This modern erection , by the way , has most unaccountably fallen under the censure of an anonymous visitor of Selborne , whose lucubrations have been quoted in " Jesse's ...
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... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be le- velled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
... nest upon nest , in perfect security , till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be le- velled . It was in the month of February , when those birds usually sit . The saw was applied to the butt , the wedges were inserted into ...
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... nest formed of dry cow - dung and small roots , which in course of time becomes extremely fetid with the castings of the young . In autumn they associate in small flocks , frequenting pasture and meadow lands ; and they migrate from ...
... nest formed of dry cow - dung and small roots , which in course of time becomes extremely fetid with the castings of the young . In autumn they associate in small flocks , frequenting pasture and meadow lands ; and they migrate from ...
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... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most artificially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
... nest composed of the blades of grass or wheat . One of these nests I procured this autumn , most artificially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture ...
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... nest in the Borough . And I myself , on the twenty - ninth of last October ( as I was travelling through Oxford ) saw four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . I have once or twice seen ...
... nest in the Borough . And I myself , on the twenty - ninth of last October ( as I was travelling through Oxford ) saw four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . I have once or twice seen ...
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Seite 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Seite 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Seite 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Seite 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Seite 140 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Seite 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Seite 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Seite 228 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Seite 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...