The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... leg , they ruminate and solace themselves from about ten in the morning till four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so ...
... leg , they ruminate and solace themselves from about ten in the morning till four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so ...
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... legs and claws , by the aid of which it clung strongly to its dam or to the deal sides of the cage . It was nestled so closely within the folds of the membranes as to prevent any observation of the process of suckling . The dam was ...
... legs and claws , by the aid of which it clung strongly to its dam or to the deal sides of the cage . It was nestled so closely within the folds of the membranes as to prevent any observation of the process of suckling . The dam was ...
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... legs , feet , and claws , were milk - white . * A shepherd saw , as he thought , some white larks on a down above my house this winter : were not these the emberiza nivalis , the snow - flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were ...
... legs , feet , and claws , were milk - white . * A shepherd saw , as he thought , some white larks on a down above my house this winter : were not these the emberiza nivalis , the snow - flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were ...
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... legs seem swollen like those of a gouty man . After harvest , I have shot them before the pointers in turnip fields . I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow- wrens ; two I know perfectly , but have not been able yet ...
... legs seem swollen like those of a gouty man . After harvest , I have shot them before the pointers in turnip fields . I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow- wrens ; two I know perfectly , but have not been able yet ...
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Gilbert White. my journals . The legs of the larger of these two are flesh- coloured ; of the less , black . The grasshopper lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday . Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this ...
Gilbert White. my journals . The legs of the larger of these two are flesh- coloured ; of the less , black . The grasshopper lark began his sibilous note in my fields last Saturday . Nothing can be more amusing than the whisper of this ...
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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