The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 Seiten |
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... My neighbour , who shot it , says that it might easily have escaped his notice , had not the outcries and chattering of the white - throats and other small birds drawn his attention to the bush where 82 NATURAL HISTORY LETTER XX. ...
... My neighbour , who shot it , says that it might easily have escaped his notice , had not the outcries and chattering of the white - throats and other small birds drawn his attention to the bush where 82 NATURAL HISTORY LETTER XX. ...
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With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory Notes Gilbert White. other small birds drawn his attention to the bush where it was : its craw was filled with the legs and wings of beetles . The next rare birds ( which were procured for ...
With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory Notes Gilbert White. other small birds drawn his attention to the bush where it was : its craw was filled with the legs and wings of beetles . The next rare birds ( which were procured for ...
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... attention would con- vince men , that these birds neither injure the goat- herd nor the grazier , but are perfectly harmless , and subsist alone , being night birds , on night insects , such as scarabæi , and phalænæ ; and through the ...
... attention would con- vince men , that these birds neither injure the goat- herd nor the grazier , but are perfectly harmless , and subsist alone , being night birds , on night insects , such as scarabæi , and phalænæ ; and through the ...
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... attention to the sex , of more specimens : all that I know at present is , that my two were amply furnished with the parts of generation much resembling those of a boar . In the extent of their wings they measured four- teen inches and ...
... attention to the sex , of more specimens : all that I know at present is , that my two were amply furnished with the parts of generation much resembling those of a boar . In the extent of their wings they measured four- teen inches and ...
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... attention in feed- ing its young , and probably the species here described . Montagu tells us that the wren returns to her nest once in two minutes ; thus feeding her offspring thirty times in an hour , and Mitford adds that the swallow ...
... attention in feed- ing its young , and probably the species here described . Montagu tells us that the wren returns to her nest once in two minutes ; thus feeding her offspring thirty times in an hour , and Mitford adds that the swallow ...
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Seite 80 - 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 408 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 182 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as 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.
Seite 199 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Seite 278 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Seite 158 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Seite 184 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...