The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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Seite 36
... short - winged soft - billed birds , which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them abound till about Michaelmas , when they appeared ...
... short - winged soft - billed birds , which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them abound till about Michaelmas , when they appeared ...
Seite 39
... short - winged birds frequently coming on board his ship all the way from our channel quite up to the Levant , especially before squally weather . What you suggest , with regard to Spain , is highly probable . The winters of Andalusia ...
... short - winged birds frequently coming on board his ship all the way from our channel quite up to the Levant , especially before squally weather . What you suggest , with regard to Spain , is highly probable . The winters of Andalusia ...
Seite 44
... short and round ; of a dirty white , spotted with dark bloody blotches . Though I might not be able , just when I pleased , to procure you a bird , yet I could show you them almost any day ; and any evening you may hear them round the ...
... short and round ; of a dirty white , spotted with dark bloody blotches . Though I might not be able , just when I pleased , to procure you a bird , yet I could show you them almost any day ; and any evening you may hear them round the ...
Seite 45
... short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) are horrid pests in a garden , destroying the peas , cherries , cur- rants , etc .; and are so tame that a gun will not scare ...
... short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) are horrid pests in a garden , destroying the peas , cherries , cur- rants , etc .; and are so tame that a gun will not scare ...
Seite 46
... short - winged summer birds ; for , when the leaf is out , there is no making any remarks on such a restless tribe ; and when once the young begin to appear it is all confusion : there is no distinction of genus , species , or sex . In ...
... short - winged summer birds ; for , when the leaf is out , there is no making any remarks on such a restless tribe ; and when once the young begin to appear it is all confusion : there is no distinction of genus , species , or sex . In ...
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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