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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... turning them loose into a common packing - case , with a few strips of deal nailed over its front to form a cage , they pleased me much by the great activity which they displayed in the larger space into which they had been introduced ...
... turning them loose into a common packing - case , with a few strips of deal nailed over its front to form a cage , they pleased me much by the great activity which they displayed in the larger space into which they had been introduced ...
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... turned out an uncommon one . I must confess I should have been better pleased to have heard that I sent you a bird you had never seen before ; but that I find would be a difficult task . I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my ...
... turned out an uncommon one . I must confess I should have been better pleased to have heard that I sent you a bird you had never seen before ; but that I find would be a difficult task . I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my ...
Seite 65
... turned upon the lark , ran under him with his gaping beak to bite , and effectually alarmed his far more gentle and elegant antagonist . Compelled to separate them , the nuthatch - for this bird I discovered him to be , by turning over ...
... turned upon the lark , ran under him with his gaping beak to bite , and effectually alarmed his far more gentle and elegant antagonist . Compelled to separate them , the nuthatch - for this bird I discovered him to be , by turning over ...
Seite 66
... turned again to his work of battering the frame of his cage , the sound from which , both in loudness and prolongation of noise , is only to be compared to the efforts of a fashionable footman , upon a fashionable door , in a ...
... turned again to his work of battering the frame of his cage , the sound from which , both in loudness and prolongation of noise , is only to be compared to the efforts of a fashionable footman , upon a fashionable door , in a ...
Seite 84
... turned loose in Pembroke college garden , in the university of Oxford , they lived a great while , and seemed to enjoy themselves very well ; but never bred . Whether this circumstance will prove anything either way , I shall not ...
... turned loose in Pembroke college garden , in the university of Oxford , they lived a great while , and seemed to enjoy themselves very well ; but never bred . Whether this circumstance will prove anything either way , I shall not ...
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