 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 Seiten
...platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there...discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that * This hawk proved to be the/ofco peregrimu— a variety. were naked and blind. As this nest was perfectly... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 Seiten
...platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there...belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it * This hawk proved to be the fatco peregrinus, — a variety. would roll across the table without being... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1844 - 788 Seiten
...platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a wheat... | |
 | Wonders - 1847 - 444 Seiten
...platted, and composed of the blades of wheat, perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.' This ' wonderful procreant cradle,' an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1848 - 320 Seiten
...platted, and composed of the blades of wheat; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there...discovering to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well-filled that it would roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1848 - 924 Seiten
...the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the а1жс of a cricket ball; with the ajwrture *o ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It wa§ •o compact and well filled, that it would roll across the table without Irt-lng discomposed,... | |
 | T. Lindley Kemp - 1854 - 152 Seiten
...artificially platted, and composed of blades of wheat perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. As the nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively, so as to administer... | |
 | 1855 - 824 Seiten
...perfectly round, and about tho size of a ericket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that the.-e was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it would roll aeross tho table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 882 Seiten
...countryman's museum." His description of the field-mouse's nest, that " was so compact and well-filled that it would roll across the table without being...discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were nuked and blind ;" his minute observations on the swallow, the bat, the stone-curlew, that lays its... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 Seiten
...This nest is " composed of the blades of wheat, perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there...belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it * " Gleanings in Natural History, with Local Recollections, by Edward Jesse, Esq." London, 1832, pp.... | |
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I procured this autumn, most artificially platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so... 
