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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... the action of the noctule in seizing the meat was similar to that of a dog . The appetite was sometimes voracious ; the quantity essen exceeding half an was worthy of observation and pleased me much . Insects 44 BATS .
... the action of the noctule in seizing the meat was similar to that of a dog . The appetite was sometimes voracious ; the quantity essen exceeding half an was worthy of observation and pleased me much . Insects 44 BATS .
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... dog will generally take a rat by the loins ; it would then hold it thus sometimes for more than a minute , when it would pass its prey through its jaws and swallow the slug head foremost . It refused the larger slugs , and would not ...
... dog will generally take a rat by the loins ; it would then hold it thus sometimes for more than a minute , when it would pass its prey through its jaws and swallow the slug head foremost . It refused the larger slugs , and would not ...
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... dog or cat , came in , it fell to hissing , and filled the room with such nauseous effluvia , as rendered it hardly sup- portable . Thus the squnck , or stonck , of Ray's Synop * See Letter xxiv . p . 82 . H Quadr . is an innocuous and ...
... dog or cat , came in , it fell to hissing , and filled the room with such nauseous effluvia , as rendered it hardly sup- portable . Thus the squnck , or stonck , of Ray's Synop * See Letter xxiv . p . 82 . H Quadr . is an innocuous and ...
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... dogs and men , it can eject such a most pesti.ent and fetid smell and excrement , that nothing can be more horrible . * A gentleman sent me lately a fine specimen of the lanius minor cinerascens cum macula in scapulis albá , Raii ...
... dogs and men , it can eject such a most pesti.ent and fetid smell and excrement , that nothing can be more horrible . * A gentleman sent me lately a fine specimen of the lanius minor cinerascens cum macula in scapulis albá , Raii ...
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... dog or a sow in defence of those chickens , which in a few weeks she will drive before her with relentless cruelty ... dogs from her helpless covey . In the time of nidification , the most feeble birds will assault the * There are two ...
... dog or a sow in defence of those chickens , which in a few weeks she will drive before her with relentless cruelty ... dogs from her helpless covey . In the time of nidification , the most feeble birds will assault the * There are two ...
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