The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 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 ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . Mr. Ray himself had no knowledge of this bird ...
... 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 ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . Mr. Ray himself had no knowledge of this bird ...
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... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the Regulus non cristatus of Ray , which he says " cantat voce stridula locusta . " Yet this great ornithologist never suspected that there were three species . LETTER XX . SELBORNE , October 8th ...
... sings ; and is , I make no doubt now , the Regulus non cristatus of Ray , which he says " cantat voce stridula locusta . " Yet this great ornithologist never suspected that there were three species . LETTER XX . SELBORNE , October 8th ...
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... sings all night : but this account merits farther 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 that ...
... sings all night : but this account merits farther 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 that ...
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... sings : These , NATURE's works , the curious mind employ , Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms , a pleasing kind of pain Steals o'er the cheek , and thrills the creeping vein ! Each rural sight , each sound , each smell ...
... sings : These , NATURE's works , the curious mind employ , Inspire a soothing melancholy joy : As fancy warms , a pleasing kind of pain Steals o'er the cheek , and thrills the creeping vein ! Each rural sight , each sound , each smell ...
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... sings incessantly night and day during the breeding - time , imi- tating the note of a sparrow , a swallow , a skylark ; 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 breeding - time , imi- tating the note of a sparrow , a swallow , a skylark ; and has a strange , hurrying manner in its song . My specimens correspond most minutely to the description of your ...
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The Natural History of Selborne: And the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White Перегляд фрагмента - 1879 |
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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