The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... composed of extraordinary interest . Walking about among the cottages , he saw and heard all their curious ways , and must have been familiar with their superstitions ; indeed , there are scattered notices of these PREFACE . xi.
... composed of extraordinary interest . Walking about among the cottages , he saw and heard all their curious ways , and must have been familiar with their superstitions ; indeed , there are scattered notices of these PREFACE . xi.
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... 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 . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some years ago in my ...
... 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 . Three grossbeaks ( Loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some years ago in my ...
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... walks , far removed from water : what they may do in the night I cannot say . Worms are their usual food , but they also eat toads and frogs . I can show you some good specimens of my new mice . Linnæus perhaps would call the species ...
... walks , far removed from water : what they may do in the night I cannot say . Worms are their usual food , but they also eat toads and frogs . I can show you some good specimens of my new mice . Linnæus perhaps would call the species ...
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... walking with some friends under Merton wall on a remark- ably hot noon , either in the last week in December or the first week in January , he espied three or four swallows huddled together on the moulding of one of the windows of that ...
... walking with some friends under Merton wall on a remark- ably hot noon , either in the last week in December or the first week in January , he espied three or four swallows huddled together on the moulding of one of the windows of that ...
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... WALK . " " equidem credo , quia sit divinitus illis Ingenium . ' -VIRG . Georg . WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam , What time the May - fly * haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead , What time ...
... WALK . " " equidem credo , quia sit divinitus illis Ingenium . ' -VIRG . Georg . WHEN day declining sheds a milder gleam , What time the May - fly * haunts the pool or stream ; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead , What time ...
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