The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... late severe weather considered , it is not very probable that these birds should have migrated so early from a tropical region , through all these cutting winds and pinching frosts ; but it is easy to suppose that they 38 NATURAL HISTORY.
... late severe weather considered , it is not very probable that these birds should have migrated so early from a tropical region , through all these cutting winds and pinching frosts ; but it is easy to suppose that they 38 NATURAL HISTORY.
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... migration , and , as it were , consulting when and where they are to go . The flight about the church seems to consist chiefly of house martins , about 400 in number ; but there are other places of rendezvous about the village ...
... migration , and , as it were , consulting when and where they are to go . The flight about the church seems to consist chiefly of house martins , about 400 in number ; but there are other places of rendezvous about the village ...
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... migration of swallows is established , are both nu- merous and important . Prince Charles Buonaparte records his agreeable surprise occasioned by the visit of a party of swallows to the ship Delaware , in which he was a passenger , five ...
... migration of swallows is established , are both nu- merous and important . Prince Charles Buonaparte records his agreeable surprise occasioned by the visit of a party of swallows to the ship Delaware , in which he was a passenger , five ...
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... migrate , yet that some do stay behind , and hide with us during the winter . * As to the short - winged soft ... migration , what difficulties attend that supposition . that such feeble bad fliers ( who the summer long never flit ...
... migrate , yet that some do stay behind , and hide with us during the winter . * As to the short - winged soft ... migration , what difficulties attend that supposition . that such feeble bad fliers ( who the summer long never flit ...
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... brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaf- finches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , from some curious person in 56 NATURAL HISTORY LETTER XIII. ...
... brought to my mind the remark of Linnæus , that , " before winter all their hen chaf- finches migrate through Holland into Italy . " Now I want to know , from some curious person in 56 NATURAL HISTORY LETTER XIII. ...
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