The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 Seiten |
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... pairing - time , and of each sex : but whether this state of celibacy is matter of choice or necessity , is not so easily discoverable . When the house - sparrows deprive my martins of their nests ,. TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . TO THOMAS ...
... pairing - time , and of each sex : but whether this state of celibacy is matter of choice or necessity , is not so easily discoverable . When the house - sparrows deprive my martins of their nests ,. TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . TO THOMAS ...
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... pair were both destroyed , and the annoyance ceased . Another instance I remember of a sportsman , whose zeal for the increase of his game being greater than his humanity , after pairing - time he always shot the cock - bird of every ...
... pair were both destroyed , and the annoyance ceased . Another instance I remember of a sportsman , whose zeal for the increase of his game being greater than his humanity , after pairing - time he always shot the cock - bird of every ...
Seite 144
... pair and discharge their parental functions till the ensuing spring . " Sedge - warbler , Salicaria phragmitis , Selby . † Reed - bunting , Amberiza schamilus , Linn . I See Letter XXVI . , to Mr. Pennant , August 30 , 1769 . See Letter ...
... pair and discharge their parental functions till the ensuing spring . " Sedge - warbler , Salicaria phragmitis , Selby . † Reed - bunting , Amberiza schamilus , Linn . I See Letter XXVI . , to Mr. Pennant , August 30 , 1769 . See Letter ...
Seite 147
... pairs ; but I have not seen that house lately . Mr. Barrington showed me many astonishing col- lections of stuffed and living birds from all quarters of the world . After I had studied over the latter for a time , I remarked that every ...
... pairs ; but I have not seen that house lately . Mr. Barrington showed me many astonishing col- lections of stuffed and living birds from all quarters of the world . After I had studied over the latter for a time , I remarked that every ...
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... pairs towards the northward , for the sake of breeding during the sum- mer months ; and retiring in parties and broods towards the south at the decline of the year : so that the rock of Gibraltar is the great rendezvous , and place of ...
... pairs towards the northward , for the sake of breeding during the sum- mer months ; and retiring in parties and broods towards the south at the decline of the year : so that the rock of Gibraltar is the great rendezvous , and place of ...
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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...