The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... village , for they make a clamour which may be heard a mile . Oedicnemus is a most apt and expressive name for them , since their legs seem swoln like those of a gouty man . After harvest I have shot them before the pointers in turnip ...
... village , for they make a clamour which may be heard a mile . Oedicnemus is a most apt and expressive name for them , since their legs seem swoln like those of a gouty man . After harvest I have shot them before the pointers in turnip ...
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... village , ate a toad to make the country people stare ; afterwards he drank oil . I have been informed also , from undoubted authority , that some ladies ( ladies , you will say , of peculiar taste ) took a fancy to a toad , which they ...
... village , ate a toad to make the country people stare ; afterwards he drank oil . I have been informed also , from undoubted authority , that some ladies ( ladies , you will say , of peculiar taste ) took a fancy to a toad , which they ...
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... village ; and , as it had a companion , doubtless intended to have bred near that water . Besides , the owner has told me since , that , on recollection , he has seen some of the same birds round his ponds in former summers . The next ...
... village ; and , as it had a companion , doubtless intended to have bred near that water . Besides , the owner has told me since , that , on recollection , he has seen some of the same birds round his ponds in former summers . The next ...
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... village . From this day I never saw one of the swallow kind till the 3rd of November ; when twenty , or perhaps thirty , house - martins were playing all day long by the side of the hanging wood , and over my fields . Did these small ...
... village . From this day I never saw one of the swallow kind till the 3rd of November ; when twenty , or perhaps thirty , house - martins were playing all day long by the side of the hanging wood , and over my fields . Did these small ...
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... placidly on the top of a tall tree in a village , the cock sings from morning to night : he affects neighbourhoods , and avoids solitude , and loves to build in orchards and about houses ; with us he NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 99.
... placidly on the top of a tall tree in a village , the cock sings from morning to night : he affects neighbourhoods , and avoids solitude , and loves to build in orchards and about houses ; with us he NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 99.
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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