The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when seasoned , it does not scale . Decent chimney ...
... weather , and endures thirty or forty years . When chiselled smooth , it makes elegant fronts for houses , equal in colour and grain to Bath stone ; and superior in one respect , that , when seasoned , it does not scale . Decent chimney ...
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... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation - viz . , Nov. 29th , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
... weather from a freezing to a thawing state , is manifest from this observation - viz . , Nov. 29th , 1731 , a little snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth ...
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... weather , they come trooping all at once , into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish . It is very amusing to ...
... weather , they come trooping all at once , into these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish . It is very amusing to ...
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... weather frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks ; when full , like a dog , it hides ...
... weather frequent our lakes in the forest . Having some acquaintance with a tame brown owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks ; when full , like a dog , it hides ...
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... weather , which he believed would puzzle me . I called to see it this summer , not knowing what to expect , but the moment I took it in hand , I pronounced it the male Garrulus bohemi- cus , or German silk - tail , from the five ...
... weather , which he believed would puzzle me . I called to see it this summer , not knowing what to expect , but the moment I took it in hand , I pronounced it the male Garrulus bohemi- cus , or German silk - tail , from the five ...
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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