The Natural History of SelborneCarey and Lea, 1832 - 342 стор. |
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... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , ma- ny times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who never let them be at rest . * Three ...
... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , ma- ny times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys , who never let them be at rest . * Three ...
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... weeks * In 1810 , large flocks of this species were dispersed through various parts of the kingdom ; and from that peri- od , few appear to have visited the island until February , 1822 , when several occurred , and one was killed on ...
... weeks * In 1810 , large flocks of this species were dispersed through various parts of the kingdom ; and from that peri- od , few appear to have visited the island until February , 1822 , when several occurred , and one was killed on ...
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... weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and from so midland a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion , that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
... weeks ) should , at that late season of the year , and from so midland a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion , that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
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... weeks , our lanes , paths , fields , will swarm for a few days with myriads of those emigrants , no larger than my little finger nail . Swammerdam gives a most accurate account of the method and situation in which the male impregnates ...
... weeks , our lanes , paths , fields , will swarm for a few days with myriads of those emigrants , no larger than my little finger nail . Swammerdam gives a most accurate account of the method and situation in which the male impregnates ...
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... week ) were some ringousels , turdi torquati . * This week twelvemonths a gentleman from Lon- don , being with us , was amusing himself with a gun , and found , he told us , on an old yew hedge where there were berries , some birds like ...
... week ) were some ringousels , turdi torquati . * This week twelvemonths a gentleman from Lon- don , being with us , was amusing himself with a gun , and found , he told us , on an old yew hedge where there were berries , some birds like ...
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Сторінка 157 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Сторінка 290 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Сторінка 340 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 252 - This incident is no bad solution of that strange circumstance which grave historians as well as the poets assert, of exposed children being sometimes nurtured by female wild beasts that probably had lost their young. For it is not one whit more marvellous that Romulus and Remus, in their infant state, should be nursed by a she-wolf, than that a poor little sucking leveret should be fostered and cherished by a bloody grimalkin. " viridi foetam Mavortis in antro Procubuisse lupam : geminos huic ubera...
Сторінка 121 - The powers of its wing were wonderful, exceeding, if possible, the various evolutions and quick turns of the swallow genus. But the circumstance that pleased me most was, that I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished...
Сторінка 21 - ... sat on. At last, when it gave way, the bird was flung from her nest; and, though...
Сторінка 20 - Many were the attempts of the neighbouring youths to get at this eyry; the difficulty whetted their inclinations, and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazard* Zoologist, i.
Сторінка 37 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd into a limpid plain ; A various group the herds and flocks compose, Rural confusion ! on the grassy bank Some ruminating lie ; while others stand Half in the flood, and often bending, sip The circling surface.
Сторінка 85 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest. Some of the more ignorant and superstitious...
Сторінка 207 - ... and then are conducted to the dead leafless bough of some tree, where, sitting in a row, they are attended with great assiduity, and may then be called perchers. In a day or two more they become flyers, but are still unable to take their own food ; therefore they play about near the place where the dams are hawking for flies : and when a mouthful is collected, at a certain signal given, the dam and the nestling advance, rising towards each other, and meeting at an angle ; the young one all...