The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... migration of Hirundines are fully as interesting as the Chattertonian controversy . " We could have wished that this gentleman had uniformly , as he has frequently , used the Linnæan names . No naturalist can now converse intelligibly ...
... migration of Hirundines are fully as interesting as the Chattertonian controversy . " We could have wished that this gentleman had uniformly , as he has frequently , used the Linnæan names . No naturalist can now converse intelligibly ...
Seite xv
... migrations to Oriel College , and other places , his man Thomas , who seems to have been well qualified for the office , recorded the weather journal . The state of the thermometer , barometer , and the variations . of the wind are ...
... migrations to Oriel College , and other places , his man Thomas , who seems to have been well qualified for the office , recorded the weather journal . The state of the thermometer , barometer , and the variations . of the wind are ...
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... . my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were then To late hatchings more in favour of hiding than migration ? SWALLOWS . 37.
... . my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were then To late hatchings more in favour of hiding than migration ? SWALLOWS . 37.
Seite 38
Gilbert White. late hatchings more in favour of hiding than migration ? Nay , some young martins remained in their ... migrate . The purpose for which they came to this country has been fulfilled . — ED . It is the grasshopper - lark ...
Gilbert White. late hatchings more in favour of hiding than migration ? Nay , some young martins remained in their ... migrate . The purpose for which they came to this country has been fulfilled . — ED . It is the grasshopper - lark ...
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... migration , and that the various species of hirundines remain in their nests till they are more completely feathered than other birds . Thus when they come forth , they are matured for flight . He thinks that the troublesome insects ...
... migration , and that the various species of hirundines remain in their nests till they are more completely feathered than other birds . Thus when they come forth , they are matured for flight . He thinks that the troublesome insects ...
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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