The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 6-10 von 26
Seite 72
... 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 brambling , or snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and ...
... 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 brambling , or snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and ...
Seite 91
... wonder at the use of its middle toe , which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw . Swallows and martins , the bulk of them I mean , have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ; for on September 22nd they rendezvoused in a ...
... wonder at the use of its middle toe , which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw . Swallows and martins , the bulk of them I mean , have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ; for on September 22nd they rendezvoused in a ...
Seite 119
... 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 redbreast and wren , it is well known to the most incurious observer that ...
... 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 redbreast and wren , it is well known to the most incurious observer that ...
Seite 121
... wonder to wonder , and instancing , in a fresh manner , that the methods of Providence are not subjected 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 subjected to any mode or rule , but astonish us in new lights , and in various and changeable appearances . What was said by a very ancient ...
Seite 123
... wonder , with good reason , that the hedge - sparrows , etc. , can be induced at all to sit on the egg of the cuckoo without being scandalised at the vast disproportionate size of the supposititious egg ; but the brute creation , I ...
... wonder , with good reason , that the hedge - sparrows , etc. , can be induced at all to sit on the egg of the cuckoo without being scandalised at the vast disproportionate size of the supposititious egg ; but the brute creation , I ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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