The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and The Naturalist's Calendar[G.] Bell, 1878 - 416 стор. |
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... week on a visit at Waverly , took the opportunity of examining some of the holes in the sand - bank with which that dis- trict abounds . As these are undoubtedly bored by bank martins , and there they avowedly breed : he was in hopes ...
... week on a visit at Waverly , took the opportunity of examining some of the holes in the sand - bank with which that dis- trict abounds . As these are undoubtedly bored by bank martins , and there they avowedly breed : he was in hopes ...
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... weeks , a few are occa- sionally seen again ; sometimes in the first week of November , and that only for one day . Do they not withdraw and slumber in some hiding place during the interval ? for we cannot suppose they had migra- ted to ...
... weeks , a few are occa- sionally seen again ; sometimes in the first week of November , and that only for one day . Do they not withdraw and slumber in some hiding place during the interval ? for we cannot suppose they had migra- ted to ...
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... week in May : the swallow , Hirundo rustica , first ; the sand martin , Cotile ri- paria , next ; followed closely by the house martin , Chelidon urbica ; and lastly comes the swift , Cypselus apus.-ED. The yellow wood - wren ( Sylvia ...
... week in May : the swallow , Hirundo rustica , first ; the sand martin , Cotile ri- paria , next ; followed closely by the house martin , Chelidon urbica ; and lastly comes the swift , Cypselus apus.-ED. The yellow wood - wren ( Sylvia ...
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... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest ...
... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest ...
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... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn , I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which as- semble in those parts . But ...
... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn , I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which as- semble in those parts . But ...
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Сторінка 9 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry : the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task ; but when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous. So the ravens built on, nest upon nest, in perfect security, till the fatal day arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was...
Сторінка 419 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 30 - On the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 396 - Down, where they wheel round in the air, and sport and dive in a playful manner, all the while exerting their voices, and making a loud cawing, which, being blended and softened by the distance that we at the village are below them, becomes a confused noise or chiding; or rather a pleasing murmur, very engaging to the imagination, and not unlike the cry of a pack of hounds in hollow, echoing woods, or the rushing of the wind in tall trees, or the tumbling of the tide upon a pebbly shore.
Сторінка 212 - The shell or crust of the nest is a sort of rustic work full of knobs and protuberances on the outside : nor is the inside of those that I have examined smoothed with any exactness at all ; but is rendered soft...
Сторінка 53 - ... roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. As this nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively so as to administer a teat to each? Perhaps she opens different places for that purpose, adjusting them again when the business is over; but she could not possibly be contained herself in the ball with her young, which moreover would be daily increasing in bulk. This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant...
Сторінка 193 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.