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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... close to the nest , but in this situation the young were hatched and reared . A gentleman in the neigh- bourhood who watched the progress of the birds in their nidification , can vouch for the truth of this anecdote . - ED . The Lewes ...
... close to the nest , but in this situation the young were hatched and reared . A gentleman in the neigh- bourhood who watched the progress of the birds in their nidification , can vouch for the truth of this anecdote . - ED . The Lewes ...
Seite 63
... close by , though at an hundred yards ' distance ; and , when close at your ear , is scarce any louder than when a great way off . Had I not been a little acquainted with insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched ...
... close by , though at an hundred yards ' distance ; and , when close at your ear , is scarce any louder than when a great way off . Had I not been a little acquainted with insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched ...
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... close to a farmhouse door , the trees being very spindly , and not mere than ten or twelve feet high . There were no large trees in the neigh- bourhood . And I may mention that I saw at Pipe Hall , in Warwickshire , □ swallow's nest ...
... close to a farmhouse door , the trees being very spindly , and not mere than ten or twelve feet high . There were no large trees in the neigh- bourhood . And I may mention that I saw at Pipe Hall , in Warwickshire , □ swallow's nest ...
Seite 83
... close of day so exactly , that I have known it strike up more than once or twice just at the report of the Portsmouth evening gun , which we can hear when the weather is still . It appears to me past all doubt , that its notes are ...
... close of day so exactly , that I have known it strike up more than once or twice just at the report of the Portsmouth evening gun , which we can hear when the weather is still . It appears to me past all doubt , that its notes are ...
Seite 125
... close the mandibles , the temporal and pterygoid muscles elevate the lower jaw , assisted by slender slips , which , extending forwards to the superior maxillary bones , act in concert , by bringing them down . When the lateral motion ...
... close the mandibles , the temporal and pterygoid muscles elevate the lower jaw , assisted by slender slips , which , extending forwards to the superior maxillary bones , act in concert , by bringing them down . When the lateral motion ...
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