The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... sound , and in high perfection , were winter - cut , viz . in Febru- ary and March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was estimated to be eighteen miles , computed measure , from water - carriage , viz . from the town ...
... sound , and in high perfection , were winter - cut , viz . in Febru- ary and March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was estimated to be eighteen miles , computed measure , from water - carriage , viz . from the town ...
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... sounds whe - u - ee , repeated eight or nine times . The three species in question are Sylvia trochilus , Latham , mentioned in the text ; Sylvia loquar , or chiff - chaff , mentioned in Letter XVI ; and Sylvia sibilatrix of the ...
... sounds whe - u - ee , repeated eight or nine times . The three species in question are Sylvia trochilus , Latham , mentioned in the text ; Sylvia loquar , or chiff - chaff , mentioned in Letter XVI ; and Sylvia sibilatrix of the ...
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... sound , just as cats pur . You will credit me , I hope , when I assure you that , as my neighbours were assembled in an hermitage on The Goat - sucker is a summer visitant , and about the latest , arriving in the middle of May , and ...
... sound , just as cats pur . You will credit me , I hope , when I assure you that , as my neighbours were assembled in an hermitage on The Goat - sucker is a summer visitant , and about the latest , arriving in the middle of May , and ...
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... sound , each smell combine ; The tinkling sheep - bell , or the breath of kine ; The new - mown hay that scents the swelling breeze , Or cottage - chimney smoking through the trees . The chilling night - dews fall : -away , retire ; For ...
... sound , each smell combine ; The tinkling sheep - bell , or the breath of kine ; The new - mown hay that scents the swelling breeze , Or cottage - chimney smoking through the trees . The chilling night - dews fall : -away , retire ; For ...
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... makes at times : but these are the only noises it makes ; the snoring sound heard from the nest , he tells us , is the cry of the young for food . -ED . sons . The plumage of the remiges of the wings OF SELBORNE . 197.
... makes at times : but these are the only noises it makes ; the snoring sound heard from the nest , he tells us , is the cry of the young for food . -ED . sons . The plumage of the remiges of the wings OF SELBORNE . 197.
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