The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... feeding during the summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my back in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the " " shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
... feeding during the summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my back in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the " " shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
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... feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted , but for this contingency . * Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
... feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted , but for this contingency . * Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
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... feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
... feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
Seite 41
... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . * Three grossbeaks ( loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . * Three grossbeaks ( loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
Seite 43
... feed them with cooked meat but this they rejected . Raw beef was , however , eaten with avidity ; and an evident preference was given to those pieces which had been moistened with water . The feeding with beef answered exceedingly well ...
... feed them with cooked meat but this they rejected . Raw beef was , however , eaten with avidity ; and an evident preference was given to those pieces which had been moistened with water . The feeding with beef answered exceedingly well ...
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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