The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 Seiten |
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... field - mouse , with " a large head and a short tail , " is widely different from the water - rat , both in size , make , and manner of life . * As to the falco , † which I mentioned in town , I shall take the liberty to send it down to ...
... field - mouse , with " a large head and a short tail , " is widely different from the water - rat , both in size , make , and manner of life . * As to the falco , † which I mentioned in town , I shall take the liberty to send it down to ...
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... fields , in the winter ; one of which I shot ; since that , now and then , one is occa- sionally seen in the same dead season . [ Mr. B. shot a cock grosbeak which he had ob- served to haunt his garden for more than a fortnight . I ...
... fields , in the winter ; one of which I shot ; since that , now and then , one is occa- sionally seen in the same dead season . [ Mr. B. shot a cock grosbeak which he had ob- served to haunt his garden for more than a fortnight . I ...
Seite 52
... field mouse . Mr. White has minutely described the nest of this little creature ; but Dr. Gloger furnished Mr. Bennett with a still more precise account of it . He describes it as beautifully constructed of panicles and leaves of three ...
... field mouse . Mr. White has minutely described the nest of this little creature ; but Dr. Gloger furnished Mr. Bennett with a still more precise account of it . He describes it as beautifully constructed of panicles and leaves of three ...
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... field , suspended in the head of a thistle . A gentleman , curious in birds , wrote me word that his servant had shot one last January , in that severe weather , which he believed would puzzle me . I called to see it this summer , not ...
... field , suspended in the head of a thistle . A gentleman , curious in birds , wrote me word that his servant had shot one last January , in that severe weather , which he believed would puzzle me . I called to see it this summer , not ...
Seite 56
... fields ; many more , I used to think , than could be hatched in any one neighbourhood . But , when I came to observe them more narrowly , I was amazed to find that they seemed to me to be almost all hens . I communicated my suspicions ...
... fields ; many more , I used to think , than could be hatched in any one neighbourhood . But , when I came to observe them more narrowly , I was amazed to find that they seemed to me to be almost all hens . I communicated my suspicions ...
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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...