The Natural History of SelborneCassell, 1911 - 263 стор. |
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... insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this contingency . Thus ... insect life in the bed of a lake or stream with their feet than in the way mentioned . — R . K.` " A various group ...
... insects nestle ; and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted but from this contingency . Thus ... insect life in the bed of a lake or stream with their feet than in the way mentioned . — R . K.` " A various group ...
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... Insects seem to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered so that the notion that bats go down chimnies and gnaw men's bacon , seems no improbable story . While I amused myself with this wonderful quadruped ...
... Insects seem to be most acceptable , though it did not refuse raw flesh when offered so that the notion that bats go down chimnies and gnaw men's bacon , seems no improbable story . While I amused myself with this wonderful quadruped ...
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... insects sufficient to support them there . Some young man , possessed of fortune , health , and leisure , should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom ; and should spend a year there , investigating the natural history of that vast ...
... insects sufficient to support them there . Some young man , possessed of fortune , health , and leisure , should make an autumnal voyage into that kingdom ; and should spend a year there , investigating the natural history of that vast ...
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... insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched , I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whispering in the bushes . The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . It is ...
... insects , and known that the grasshopper kind is not yet hatched , I should have hardly believed but that it had been a locusta whispering in the bushes . The country people laugh when you tell them that it is the note of a bird . It is ...
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... insects are full of eggs , which they exclude the instant they enter their last state . The water- eft is continually climbing over the brims of the vessel , within which we keep it in water , and wandering away and people every summer ...
... insects are full of eggs , which they exclude the instant they enter their last state . The water- eft is continually climbing over the brims of the vessel , within which we keep it in water , and wandering away and people every summer ...
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abound Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of passage birds of prey breed British brood called chaffinches cold colour cuckoo curious DEAR SIR district dogs doubt echo eggs feed feet female fieldfares fishes flocks frequently frost garden Gilbert White ground Hanger haunt hedges hill hirundines hirundo house-martins hundred inches insects known larvæ late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins mentioned migration morning Motacilla natural history neighbouring nest never night observed ornithologist owls parish perhaps plants prey procured quadrupeds RAII rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels season SEDGE WARBLER seems seen Selborne sing snow soon sort species spring stone stone curlew strange summer suppose Sussex swallow swifts tail tion titmouse tree pipit trees vast vegetation village weather wild wings winter wonder woodcocks Woodlark woods wren young