The Natural History of Selborne: With A Naturalist's Calendar & Additional ObservationsScott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... leaf to take breath . Over the pond brilliantly coloured insects float to and fro , and the fish that never seem to move from the dark depths do move and do come up in sight . Be very careful not to go too far ; keep round the skirts of ...
... leaf to take breath . Over the pond brilliantly coloured insects float to and fro , and the fish that never seem to move from the dark depths do move and do come up in sight . Be very careful not to go too far ; keep round the skirts of ...
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... leaf is out , there is no making any remarks on such a restless tribe ; and when once the young begin to appear it is all confusion : there is no distinction of genus , species , or sex . In breeding - time snipes play over the moors ...
... leaf is out , there is no making any remarks on such a restless tribe ; and when once the young begin to appear it is all confusion : there is no distinction of genus , species , or sex . In breeding - time snipes play over the moors ...
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... leaf - shelter'd let us stray , ' Till blended objects fail the swimming sight , And all the fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing , or the shrill * cricket cry ; To see the feeding ...
... leaf - shelter'd let us stray , ' Till blended objects fail the swimming sight , And all the fading landscape sinks in night ; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing , or the shrill * cricket cry ; To see the feeding ...
Seite 73
... leaves . At one end of the burrow lay above a gallon of potatoes regularly stowed , on which it was to have supported itself for the winter . But the difficulty with me is how this amphibius mus came to fix its winter station at such a ...
... leaves . At one end of the burrow lay above a gallon of potatoes regularly stowed , on which it was to have supported itself for the winter . But the difficulty with me is how this amphibius mus came to fix its winter station at such a ...
Seite 74
... their upper mandible , which is much longer than their lower , they bore under the plant , and so eat the root off upwards , leaving the tuft of leaves untouched . In this respect they are serviceable , as 74 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... their upper mandible , which is much longer than their lower , they bore under the plant , and so eat the root off upwards , leaving the tuft of leaves untouched . In this respect they are serviceable , as 74 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young
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Seite 60 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 285 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 248 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden; however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Seite 109 - As, when the dove her rocky hold forsakes, Roused in a fright, her sounding wings she shakes ; The cavern rings with clattering ; out she flies, And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies : At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings : So Mnestheus in the Dolphin cuts the sea ; And, flying with a force, that force assists his way.
Seite 284 - ... alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rustcoloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of . rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Seite 135 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 187 - Even great disparity of kind and size does not always prevent social advances and mutual fellowship. For a very intelligent and observant person lias assured me that, in the former part of his life, keeping but one horse, he happened also on a time to have but one solitary hen. These two incongruous animals spent much of their time together in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these two sequestered individuals. The...
Seite 143 - ... much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.
Seite 24 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Seite 336 - Resounds the living surface of the ground: Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclin'd, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.