The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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Seite 23
... four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this ...
... four in the afternoon , and then return to their feeding . During this great proportion of the day they drop much dung , in which insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this ...
Seite 36
... four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . Now is it likely that these poor little birds ( which per- haps had not been hatched but a few weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and ...
... four or five swallows hovering round and settling on the roof of the county hospital . Now is it likely that these poor little birds ( which per- haps had not been hatched but a few weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and ...
Seite 40
... four inches and a quarter , and the same in its tail . We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing - point , within doors . The tender evergreens ...
... four inches and a quarter , and the same in its tail . We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing - point , within doors . The tender evergreens ...
Seite 41
... four spiracula- • Τετραδυμοι ῥίνες , πιουρες ὢνοιηὸι διαυλοι . ” " Quadrifidæ nares , quadruplices ad respirationem canales . " - -OPP . CYN . Lib . ii . 1. 181 . Writers , copying from one another , make Aristotle say that goats ...
... four spiracula- • Τετραδυμοι ῥίνες , πιουρες ὢνοιηὸι διαυλοι . ” " Quadrifidæ nares , quadruplices ad respirationem canales . " - -OPP . CYN . Lib . ii . 1. 181 . Writers , copying from one another , make Aristotle say that goats ...
Seite 42
... four . Its chief food was hempseed . Such influence has food on the colour of animals ! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high , various , and unusual food . I had remarked , for years ...
... four . Its chief food was hempseed . Such influence has food on the colour of animals ! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high , various , and unusual food . I had remarked , for years ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young