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Compelled to separate them , the nuthatch — for this bird I discovered him to be ,
by turning over the leaves of an Ornithologia — was put into a smaller cage of
plain oak wood and wire . Here he remained all night , and the next morning his ...
Compelled to separate them , the nuthatch — for this bird I discovered him to be ,
by turning over the leaves of an Ornithologia — was put into a smaller cage of
plain oak wood and wire . Here he remained all night , and the next morning his ...
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Some suspect that it is made by their wings . turned again to his work of battering
the frame of his cage , the sound from which , both in londness and prolongation
of noise , is only to be compared to the efforts of a fashionable footman , upon a ...
Some suspect that it is made by their wings . turned again to his work of battering
the frame of his cage , the sound from which , both in londness and prolongation
of noise , is only to be compared to the efforts of a fashionable footman , upon a ...
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SELBORNE , Feb. 28 , 1769 . DEAR SIR - It is not improbable that the Guernsey
lizard and our green lizards may be specifically the same ; all that I know is , that
when , some years ago , many Guernsey lizards were turned loose in Pembroke
...
SELBORNE , Feb. 28 , 1769 . DEAR SIR - It is not improbable that the Guernsey
lizard and our green lizards may be specifically the same ; all that I know is , that
when , some years ago , many Guernsey lizards were turned loose in Pembroke
...
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As a neighbour was lately ploughing in a dry chalky field , far removed from any
water , he turned out a water - rat , that was curiously laid up in an hybernaculum
, artificially formed and leaves . At one end of the burrow lay about a gallon of ...
As a neighbour was lately ploughing in a dry chalky field , far removed from any
water , he turned out a water - rat , that was curiously laid up in an hybernaculum
, artificially formed and leaves . At one end of the burrow lay about a gallon of ...
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In some specimens , the upper mandibles curve downwards and to the left ; the
under portion turned upwards , and to the right When holding the head of this bird
in my fingers , I found I could bring thu under mandible in a line underneath ...
In some specimens , the upper mandibles curve downwards and to the left ; the
under portion turned upwards , and to the right When holding the head of this bird
in my fingers , I found I could bring thu under mandible in a line underneath ...
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| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Bohn's illustrated library |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | G. Bell, 1890 |
| Original von | Northwestern University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Dez. 2010 |
| Länge | 416 Seiten |
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