The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... weeks they are all gone . I shall be very curious to remark whether they will call on us at their return in the spring , as they did last year . I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology . If fortune had settled me near ...
... weeks they are all gone . I shall be very curious to remark whether they will call on us at their return in the spring , as they did last year . I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology . If fortune had settled me near ...
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... week , they would certainly find more species . There is no bird , I believe , whose manners I have studied more than that of the caprimulgus ( the goat - sucker ) , as it is a wonderful and curious creature ; but I have always found ...
... week , they would certainly find more species . There is no bird , I believe , whose manners I have studied more than that of the caprimulgus ( the goat - sucker ) , as it is a wonderful and curious creature ; but I have always found ...
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... week together at Spalding , without ever being told that such a curiosity was just at hand . Pray send me word in your next what sort of tree it is that contains such a quantity of herons ' nests ; and whether the heronry consists of a ...
... week together at Spalding , without ever being told that such a curiosity was just at hand . Pray send me word in your next what sort of tree it is that contains such a quantity of herons ' nests ; and whether the heronry consists of a ...
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... weeks . For a very respectable gentleman assured me that , as he was walking with some friends under Merton wall on a remark- ably hot noon , either in the last week in December or the first week in January , he espied three or four ...
... weeks . For a very respectable gentleman assured me that , as he was walking with some friends under Merton wall on a remark- ably hot noon , either in the last week in December or the first week in January , he espied three or four ...
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... week in the middle of April , I am seized with wonder , and long to be informed whence these travellers come , and whither they go , since they seem to use our hills merely as an inn or baiting place . Your account of the greater ...
... week in the middle of April , I am seized with wonder , and long to be informed whence these travellers come , and whither they go , since they seem to use our hills merely as an inn or baiting place . Your account of the greater ...
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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