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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... mean that sort which , rising into tall hassocks , is called by the forestera torrets ; a corruption I suppose of turrets . Wild ducks and teal also breed in the thick heather in the neighbour hood.-ED. For which : cousult Letter LXXXIV ...
... mean that sort which , rising into tall hassocks , is called by the forestera torrets ; a corruption I suppose of turrets . Wild ducks and teal also breed in the thick heather in the neighbour hood.-ED. For which : cousult Letter LXXXIV ...
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... means peculiar to them , I cannot pass over in silence : and that is , that instinct by which in summer all the kine , whether oxen , cows , calves , or heifers , retire constantly to the water during the hotter hours ; where , being ...
... means peculiar to them , I cannot pass over in silence : and that is , that instinct by which in summer all the kine , whether oxen , cows , calves , or heifers , retire constantly to the water during the hotter hours ; where , being ...
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... . Hist.-W. J. 98 They are by no means uncommon birds in this country . Many of them breed among the Horn - beam pollards in Epping and Waltham Forests . - ED . the village , yield nothing but the bull's head , GROSSBEAKS . 41.
... . Hist.-W. J. 98 They are by no means uncommon birds in this country . Many of them breed among the Horn - beam pollards in Epping and Waltham Forests . - ED . the village , yield nothing but the bull's head , GROSSBEAKS . 41.
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... the theory which ascribes to the suborbital sinuses a sexual relation . - R . O. ] [ It seems probable that these organs , on the use of which it is by no means slit up the nostrils of such asses as were hard 56 SPIRACULA OF ANIMALS .
... the theory which ascribes to the suborbital sinuses a sexual relation . - R . O. ] [ It seems probable that these organs , on the use of which it is by no means slit up the nostrils of such asses as were hard 56 SPIRACULA OF ANIMALS .
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... mean the same thing as second willow wren , and refer alike to sylv . trochilus : but it is possible that at a later period than the date of Letter XIX . written in 1768 , he may have suspected the existence of a fourth species . - W ...
... mean the same thing as second willow wren , and refer alike to sylv . trochilus : but it is possible that at a later period than the date of Letter XIX . written in 1768 , he may have suspected the existence of a fourth species . - W ...
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