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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... wings and fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an uncommon assemblage of sum- mer and winter birds ! [ It is not easy to discover whether White really believed in the hybernation of swallows or not ; he clings to the idea , and ...
... wings and fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an uncommon assemblage of sum- mer and winter birds ! [ It is not easy to discover whether White really believed in the hybernation of swallows or not ; he clings to the idea , and ...
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... wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were , consulting when and where they are to go . The flight about the church seems to ...
... wings to admit the sun , they seem to enjoy the warm situation . Thus they spend the heat of the day , preparing for their migration , and , as it were , consulting when and where they are to go . The flight about the church seems to ...
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... wing , chirping as it flies along . It perches on lofty branches of trees . Its song is modulated and short , being a repetition of twee , twee , the first notes prolonged , finishing with a shrill shaking note , which , says Sweet ...
... wing , chirping as it flies along . It perches on lofty branches of trees . Its song is modulated and short , being a repetition of twee , twee , the first notes prolonged , finishing with a shrill shaking note , which , says Sweet ...
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... wing at that time , and to hear his piping and humming notes . I have had no opportunity yet of procuring any of those mice which I mentioned to you in town . The person that brought me the last says they are plen- tiful in harvest , at ...
... wing at that time , and to hear his piping and humming notes . I have had no opportunity yet of procuring any of those mice which I mentioned to you in town . The person that brought me the last says they are plen- tiful in harvest , at ...
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... wings , sky- larks , and tit - larks , resort to watered meadows for food ; the latter wades up to its belly in ... wing should fly such vast distances , will cease when he considers the resting - places they find on their journey ...
... wings , sky- larks , and tit - larks , resort to watered meadows for food ; the latter wades up to its belly in ... wing should fly such vast distances , will cease when he considers the resting - places they find on their journey ...
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abound Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches colour common common buzzard congeners cuckoo curious curlew district eggs feed feet female fern-owl fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequently frost garden ground Hanger haunt hawk hedges hirundines hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON house-martins hundred inches insects known late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls pair perhaps ponds prey probably procured quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE shot sing snow soft-billed song soon species spring stone-curlew strange summer suppose Sussex swallow swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT thrush tion titmouse trees vast Vespertilio village weather white-throat wild wings winter Wolmer wonder woodcocks Woodlark woods wren young
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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.