The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... wild bees — a little incident ; but fifty years afterwards , or more , another naturalist , who had paid particular attention to these insects , happened to visit the same spot , and there he found colonies of the same bees , and ...
... wild bees — a little incident ; but fifty years afterwards , or more , another naturalist , who had paid particular attention to these insects , happened to visit the same spot , and there he found colonies of the same bees , and ...
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... wild beasts : in fact , they seemed to look on man as a species of wolf that could only be tamed by stretching its neck . Let us not wish for the good old times of Gilbert White , -they are gone ; but his fields and hedges remain to us ...
... wild beasts : in fact , they seemed to look on man as a species of wolf that could only be tamed by stretching its neck . Let us not wish for the good old times of Gilbert White , -they are gone ; but his fields and hedges remain to us ...
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... wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ; and especially when those cascades are frozen into icicles , hanging in all the fanciful shapes of ...
... wild appearances , from the tangled roots that are twisted among the strata , and from the torrents rushing down their broken sides ; and especially when those cascades are frozen into icicles , hanging in all the fanciful shapes of ...
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... wild district , whose timbers consisted of a black , hard wood , looking like oak , which the owners . assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits , or some such instruments : but the peat is so much cut out ...
... wild district , whose timbers consisted of a black , hard wood , looking like oak , which the owners . assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits , or some such instruments : but the peat is so much cut out ...
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... wild fowls , which not only frequent it in the winter , but breed there in the summer ; such as lapwings , snipes , wild - ducks , and , as I have discovered within these few years , teals . Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good ...
... wild fowls , which not only frequent it in the winter , but breed there in the summer ; such as lapwings , snipes , wild - ducks , and , as I have discovered within these few years , teals . Partridges in vast plenty are bred in good ...
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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