Poems, journals, and essaysMacmillan, 1876 - 4 стор. |
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Сторінка ix
... birds , that those who are fond of birds have every facility for learning all that is known about them up to the present time . All I beg on behalf of the wild birds is not to shoot them ; leave the gun at home , and take the opera ...
... birds , that those who are fond of birds have every facility for learning all that is known about them up to the present time . All I beg on behalf of the wild birds is not to shoot them ; leave the gun at home , and take the opera ...
Сторінка x
... Birds Breeding in Great Britain . " By his permission I have quoted this gentleman's descriptions of the Nests and Eggs of many birds mentioned by White . I am also under obligations to Colonel Hardy , R.A .; Mr. Menzies , of Windsor ...
... Birds Breeding in Great Britain . " By his permission I have quoted this gentleman's descriptions of the Nests and Eggs of many birds mentioned by White . I am also under obligations to Colonel Hardy , R.A .; Mr. Menzies , of Windsor ...
Сторінка 30
... birds were to be found . The same search was made many years ago with as little success . " March 2 , 1793 , Mr. White adds , " a single sand - martin was seen hovering and playing round the sandpit at Short - heath , where they abound ...
... birds were to be found . The same search was made many years ago with as little success . " March 2 , 1793 , Mr. White adds , " a single sand - martin was seen hovering and playing round the sandpit at Short - heath , where they abound ...
Сторінка 32
... birds that have as yet no English name . Mr. Stillingfleet makes a question whether the blackcap ( Motacilla atricapilla ) be a bird of passage or not : I think there is no doubt of it : for , in April , in the first fine weather , they ...
... birds that have as yet no English name . Mr. Stillingfleet makes a question whether the blackcap ( Motacilla atricapilla ) be a bird of passage or not : I think there is no doubt of it : for , in April , in the first fine weather , they ...
Сторінка 33
... birds in part . Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by colour , for though white currants are a much sweeter fruit than red , yet they seldom touch the former till they have devoured every bunch of the latter . Redstarts ...
... birds in part . Birds are much influenced in their choice of food by colour , for though white currants are a much sweeter fruit than red , yet they seldom touch the former till they have devoured every bunch of the latter . Redstarts ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of passage birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious district feed feet female fern-owl fieldfares fields flocks frequently frost garden Greatham ground Hanger hatched haunt HAWFINCH hedges hill hirundines Hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON house-martins inches insects June late legs LETTER Linnæus LYSS manner martins migration morning Motacilla natural history neighbour nest never night numbers observed owls pair perhaps ponds procured quadrupeds rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange summer birds suppose Sussex swallow swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT thrush titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter Wolmer Forest wonder woodcocks Woodlark woods wren YELLOW WAGTAIL young
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Сторінка 276 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Сторінка 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused 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 132 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against...
Сторінка 216 - A GOOD ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as by their colours and shape; on the ground as well as on the wing, and in the bush as well as in the hand. For, though it must not be said that every species of birds has a manner peculiar to itself, yet there is somewhat in most genera at least, that at first sight discriminates them, and enables a judicious observer to pronounce upon them with some certainty.
Сторінка 117 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Сторінка 133 - I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices ; for as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Сторінка 198 - Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of Nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.
Сторінка 78 - What time the may-fly haunts the pool or stream; When the still owl skims round the grassy mead, What time the timorous hare limps forth to feed ; Then be the time to steal adown the vale, And listen to the vagrant cuckoo's tale; To hear the clamorous...
Сторінка 179 - Every day in fine weather, in autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft: they will go off from your finger, if you will take them into your hand.
Сторінка 142 - But then, that this work may not, while it is soft and green, pull itself down by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day.