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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... frequent it in the winter , but breed there in the summer ; such as lapwings , snipes , wild - ducks , and , as I have discovered within these few years , teals . Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this ...
... frequent it in the winter , but breed there in the summer ; such as lapwings , snipes , wild - ducks , and , as I have discovered within these few years , teals . Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good seasons on the verge of this ...
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... frequently in the southern counties of England , during hard and stormy winters . Mr. White ( as we learn from the Naturalist's Calendar and Miscellaneous Observations , published in a separate volume , since the author's decease , by ...
... frequently in the southern counties of England , during hard and stormy winters . Mr. White ( as we learn from the Naturalist's Calendar and Miscellaneous Observations , published in a separate volume , since the author's decease , by ...
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... frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks : when full , like a dog , it hides what it ...
... frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks : when full , like a dog , it hides what it ...
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... frequently placed a small piece of beef within a short distance of its nose , but the beef has always been disregarded ; when , on the other hand , I have put a fly in the same situation , the bat instantly commenced snapping after it ...
... frequently placed a small piece of beef within a short distance of its nose , but the beef has always been disregarded ; when , on the other hand , I have put a fly in the same situation , the bat instantly commenced snapping after it ...
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... frequent waters , not only for the sake of drinking , bnt on account of insects , which are found over them in the greatest plenty . As I was going some years ago , pretty late , in a boat from Richmond to Sunbury , on a warm summer's ...
... frequent waters , not only for the sake of drinking , bnt on account of insects , which are found over them in the greatest plenty . As I was going some years ago , pretty late , in a boat from Richmond to Sunbury , on a warm summer's ...
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