The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... build every year in the rabbit - burrows under ground . The way he and his brothers used to take their nests , while they were boys , was by listening at the mouths of the holes , and it ' they heard the young ones cry , they twisted ...
... build every year in the rabbit - burrows under ground . The way he and his brothers used to take their nests , while they were boys , was by listening at the mouths of the holes , and it ' they heard the young ones cry , they twisted ...
Seite 81
... building with us under ground , in rabbit - burrows , you have , in part , hit upon the reason ; for , in reality , there are hardly any towers or steeples in all this country . And perhaps , Nor- folk excepted , Hampshire and Sussex ...
... building with us under ground , in rabbit - burrows , you have , in part , hit upon the reason ; for , in reality , there are hardly any towers or steeples in all this country . And perhaps , Nor- folk excepted , Hampshire and Sussex ...
Seite 82
... build in odd places . A pair of magpies in a district where there were no trees , made their nest in a gooseberry - bush in a cotter's garden , and surrounded it with brambles , furze , & c . in so ingenious a manner that no one would ...
... build in odd places . A pair of magpies in a district where there were no trees , made their nest in a gooseberry - bush in a cotter's garden , and surrounded it with brambles , furze , & c . in so ingenious a manner that no one would ...
Seite 84
... building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to happen when the cock has been pursuing the hen in a toying manner through the boughs of a tree . * * Mr . White's ...
... building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to happen when the cock has been pursuing the hen in a toying manner through the boughs of a tree . * * Mr . White's ...
Seite 87
... build- ings of that place , to the many waters round it , or to what else ? they reach their final quarters ; and during this time having their supply of suitable food daily augmented . The causes influencing the migration of birds ...
... build- ings of that place , to the many waters round it , or to what else ? they reach their final quarters ; and during this time having their supply of suitable food daily augmented . The causes influencing the migration of birds ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 autumn beech birds of passage birds of prey breed British brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district edition eggs feed feet female fieldfares flies flocks forest frequently garden Gilbert White ground haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 MARKWICK Memoir mentioned migration mild Motacilla natural history naturalist nest never night Notes observed perhaps Portrait prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone curlew summer suppose swallows swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT tion titmouse Trans trees vast village vols weather WHITE wild wings winter woods wren young