The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... martins ( hi- rundines urbica ) were then fledged in their nests . Both species will breed again once : for I see by my fauna of last year , that young broods came forth so late as September the eighteenth . Are not these late hatchings ...
... martins ( hi- rundines urbica ) were then fledged in their nests . Both species will breed again once : for I see by my fauna of last year , that young broods came forth so late as September the eighteenth . Are not these late hatchings ...
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... martins , and there they avowedly breed : he was in hopes that they might have slept there also , and that he might ... martin was seen hovering and playing round the sand - pit at Short - heath , where they abound in sum- mer . April 9 ...
... martins , and there they avowedly breed : he was in hopes that they might have slept there also , and that he might ... martin was seen hovering and playing round the sand - pit at Short - heath , where they abound in sum- mer . April 9 ...
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... martins to frequent the district ; for I have ever remarked that they haunt near great waters , either rivers or lakes . " A year later , he says , " During the severe winds that often prevail late in the spring , it is not easy to say ...
... martins to frequent the district ; for I have ever remarked that they haunt near great waters , either rivers or lakes . " A year later , he says , " During the severe winds that often prevail late in the spring , it is not easy to say ...
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... martins entire , because they are mixed up with much inte- resting matter respecting these elegant birds , but all idea of their hybernating during the winter has long been abandoned by naturalists ; in fact , it never was supported by ...
... martins entire , because they are mixed up with much inte- resting matter respecting these elegant birds , but all idea of their hybernating during the winter has long been abandoned by naturalists ; in fact , it never was supported by ...
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... martins have eggs still , and squab- young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it ... martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the twentieth of November . At present I know only two ...
... martins have eggs still , and squab- young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it ... martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the twentieth of November . At present I know only two ...
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