The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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Gilbert White. As to swallows ( hirundines rustica ) being found in a torpid state during the winter , in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an ...
Gilbert White. As to swallows ( hirundines rustica ) being found in a torpid state during the winter , in the Isle of Wight , or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an ...
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... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migra- tion , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers , who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge , should be able to traverse vast seas ...
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... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times . maggots , which turn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
... convinced , wholly unfounded . In the winter months my toad always refused food , though he did not become torpid , but grew thin and moved much less than at other times . maggots , which turn to flesh - flies . The FROGS . - TOADS . 69.
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... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
... torpid state , and have revived upon being placed in a warmer temperature ; but this , I consider , has always been a suspended animation , where all the functions were entirely bound up as in death , and which , by the continuance of a ...
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... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . many But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in ...
... torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months , till the return of the sun and fine weather awakens them . many But then we must not , I think , deny migration in general ; because migration certainly does subsist in ...
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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