The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... autumn . Mr. Doubleday has satisfied himself that it remains the whole year , and breeds in Epping Forest , and elsewhere round London : and Jesse says that , being rather a rare bird , it is shot whenever it is seen , for preservation ...
... autumn . Mr. Doubleday has satisfied himself that it remains the whole year , and breeds in Epping Forest , and elsewhere round London : and Jesse says that , being rather a rare bird , it is shot whenever it is seen , for preservation ...
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... autumn , most artificially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed , that there was no discovering to what part it be- longed ...
... autumn , most artificially platted , and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket - ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed , that there was no discovering to what part it be- longed ...
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... autumn , I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which as- semble in those parts . But what struck me most was , that , from the time they began to congregate , for- saking the chimnies and houses ...
... autumn , I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which as- semble in those parts . But what struck me most was , that , from the time they began to congregate , for- saking the chimnies and houses ...
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... autumn : but that they do not all withdraw I am sure ; because I see a few stragglers in many counties , at all times of the year , especially about warrens and stone quarries . The Buntings certainly remain with us all the year ...
... autumn : but that they do not all withdraw I am sure ; because I see a few stragglers in many counties , at all times of the year , especially about warrens and stone quarries . The Buntings certainly remain with us all the year ...
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... autumn . Already they begin clamouring in the even- ing . They cannot , I think , with any propriety , be called , as they are by Mr. Ray , dwellers about streams or ponds , circa aquas versantes ; for with us , by day at least , they ...
... autumn . Already they begin clamouring in the even- ing . They cannot , I think , with any propriety , be called , as they are by Mr. Ray , dwellers about streams or ponds , circa aquas versantes ; for with us , by day at least , they ...
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