The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area . This venerable tree , surrounded with stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in ...
... short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area . This venerable tree , surrounded with stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in ...
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... that falls on it is very considerable , as may be supposed in so woody and mountainous a district . As my experience of measuring the water is but of short date , I am not qualified to give the mean NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 133.
... that falls on it is very considerable , as may be supposed in so woody and mountainous a district . As my experience of measuring the water is but of short date , I am not qualified to give the mean NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE . 133.
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... short in two . a Another temptation to idleness and sporting was number of rabbits , which possessed all the hillocks and dry places : but these being inconvenient to the huntsmen , on account of their burrows , when they came to take ...
... short in two . a Another temptation to idleness and sporting was number of rabbits , which possessed all the hillocks and dry places : but these being inconvenient to the huntsmen , on account of their burrows , when they came to take ...
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... Short Heath , Oak- hanger , and Oakwoods ; a large district , now private property , though once belonging to the royal domain . It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment . It contains ...
... Short Heath , Oak- hanger , and Oakwoods ; a large district , now private property , though once belonging to the royal domain . It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment . It contains ...
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... short remiges . It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; and yet I see , by Ray's Philoso- phical Letters , that great flocks of them , feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 ...
... short remiges . It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; and yet I see , by Ray's Philoso- phical Letters , that great flocks of them , feeding on haws , appeared in this kingdom in the winter of 1685 ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young