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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... wonder to me , that fieldfares which are so congenerous to thrushes and blackbirds , should never choose to breed in England : but that they should not think even the Highlands cold , and northerly , and seques- tered enough , is a ...
... wonder to me , that fieldfares which are so congenerous to thrushes and blackbirds , should never choose to breed in England : but that they should not think even the Highlands cold , and northerly , and seques- tered enough , is a ...
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... wonder , and long to be informed whence these travel- lers come , and whither they go , since they seem to use our hills merely as an inn , or baiting place . Your account of the greater brambling , or snow - fleck , 18 very amusing ...
... wonder , and long to be informed whence these travel- lers come , and whither they go , since they seem to use our hills merely as an inn , or baiting place . Your account of the greater brambling , or snow - fleck , 18 very amusing ...
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... wonder that they protract their song ; for I lay it down as a maxim in ornithology , that as long as there is any incubation going on , there is music . As to the red - breast and wren , it is well known to the most incurious observer ...
... wonder that they protract their song ; for I lay it down as a maxim in ornithology , that as long as there is any incubation going on , there is music . As to the red - breast and wren , it is well known to the most incurious observer ...
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... wonder to wonder , and instancing , in a fresh manner , that the methods of Providence are not sub- jected to any mode or rule , but astonish us in new lights , and in various and changeable appearances . What was said by a very ancient ...
... wonder to wonder , and instancing , in a fresh manner , that the methods of Providence are not sub- jected to any mode or rule , but astonish us in new lights , and in various and changeable appearances . What was said by a very ancient ...
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... wonder , with good reason , that the hedge - sparrows , & c . , can be induced at all to sit on the egg of the cuckoo , without being scandalised at the vast disproportioned size of the supposititious egg ; but the brute creation , I ...
... wonder , with good reason , that the hedge - sparrows , & c . , can be induced at all to sit on the egg of the cuckoo , without being scandalised at the vast disproportioned size of the supposititious egg ; but the brute creation , I ...
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