The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen ...
... torpid state during the winter in the Isle of Wight or any part of this country , I never heard any such account worth attending to . But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that when he was a great boy , some workmen ...
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... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migration , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers ( who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge ) should be able to traverse vast seas ...
... torpid state in the winter . But with regard to their migration , what difficulties attend that supposition ! that such feeble bad fliers ( who the summer long never flit but from hedge to hedge ) should be able to traverse vast seas ...
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... torpid state ? If they do not , how are they supported ? The note of the white - throat , which is continually repeated , and often attended with odd gesticulations on the wing , is harsh and displeasing . These birds seem of a ...
... torpid state ? If they do not , how are they supported ? The note of the white - throat , which is continually repeated , and often attended with odd gesticulations on the wing , is harsh and displeasing . These birds seem of a ...
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... your suspicions , that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter , but lay themselves up like insects and bats , in a torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months till NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... your suspicions , that at least many of the swallow kind do not leave us in the winter , but lay themselves up like insects and bats , in a torpid state , and slumber away the more uncomfortable months till NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... torpid of beings distinguishes the hand that feeds it , and is touched with the feelings of gratitude ! P.S - In about three days after I left Sussex the tortoise retired into the ground under the hepatica . LETTER XIV . SELBORNE ...
... torpid of beings distinguishes the hand that feeds it , and is touched with the feelings of gratitude ! P.S - In about three days after I left Sussex the tortoise retired into the ground under the hepatica . LETTER XIV . SELBORNE ...
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