The Natural History of SelborneCassell, 1911 - 263 стор. |
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... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge where it haunted ; and then it would run , creeping like a mouse , before us for a hundred yards together , through ...
... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge where it haunted ; and then it would run , creeping like a mouse , before us for a hundred yards together , through ...
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... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the regulus non cristatus of Ray , which he says cantat voce stridulâ locusta . " Yet this great ornithologist never sus- pected that there were three species . * LETTER XX . Selborne , October 8 ...
... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the regulus non cristatus of Ray , which he says cantat voce stridulâ locusta . " Yet this great ornithologist never sus- pected that there were three species . * LETTER XX . Selborne , October 8 ...
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... sings all night : but this account merits further inquiry . † For my part , I suspect it is a second sort of locustella , hinted at by Dr. Derham in Ray's Letters : see p . 108. He also procured me a grasshopper - lark . The question ...
... sings all night : but this account merits further inquiry . † For my part , I suspect it is a second sort of locustella , hinted at by Dr. Derham in Ray's Letters : see p . 108. He also procured me a grasshopper - lark . The question ...
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... sings : These , NATURE'S works , the curious mind employ , Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms , a ... singing in the air.-G. W. Each rural sight , each sound , each smell combine. 72 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... sings : These , NATURE'S works , the curious mind employ , Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms , a ... singing in the air.-G. W. Each rural sight , each sound , each smell combine. 72 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... sings incessantly night and day during the breed- ing time , imitating the note of a sparrow , a swallow , a sky- lark ; and has a strange hurrying manner in its song . My specimens correspond most minutely to the description of your ...
... sings incessantly night and day during the breed- ing time , imitating the note of a sparrow , a swallow , a sky- lark ; and has a strange hurrying manner in its song . My specimens correspond most minutely to the description of your ...
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