The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... birds himself , to my no small disappointment he answered me in the negative ; but that others assured him they did . Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July the 11th , and young martins ( hirundines urbica ) were ...
... birds himself , to my no small disappointment he answered me in the negative ; but that others assured him they did . Young broods of swallows began to appear this year on July the 11th , and young martins ( hirundines urbica ) were ...
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... birds in Spring Gardens . I found it nailed up at the end of a barn , which is the countryman's museum . The parish I live in is a very abrupt uneven country , full of hills and woods , and therefore full of birds . LETTER XI . TO THE ...
... birds in Spring Gardens . I found it nailed up at the end of a barn , which is the countryman's museum . The parish I live in is a very abrupt uneven country , full of hills and woods , and therefore full of birds . LETTER XI . TO THE ...
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... birds , haunting with the missel - thrushes , and feed- ing on the berries of the yew - tree , which answered to the description of the merula torquata , or ring - ousel , were lately seen in this neighbourhood . I employed some people ...
... birds , haunting with the missel - thrushes , and feed- ing on the berries of the yew - tree , which answered to the description of the merula torquata , or ring - ousel , were lately seen in this neighbourhood . I employed some people ...
Seite 49
... birds to venture upon the wing from the perilous height at which their nest is placed , by making the abode insupportable . Each bird , Mr. Herbert says , builds its nest in the same form and of the same materials as its parent , and ...
... birds to venture upon the wing from the perilous height at which their nest is placed , by making the abode insupportable . Each bird , Mr. Herbert says , builds its nest in the same form and of the same materials as its parent , and ...
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... birds which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them abound till about Michaelmas , when they appeared no longer . Subsist they ...
... birds which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them abound till about Michaelmas , when they appeared no longer . Subsist they ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young