The Natural History of SelborneConstable and Company, 1829 - 343 стор. |
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... short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area . This venerable tree , surrounded with stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in ...
... short squat body , and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area . This venerable tree , surrounded with stone steps , and seats above them , was the delight of old and young , and a place of much resort in ...
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... short date , I am not qualified to give the mean quantity . * I only know that From May 1 , 1779 , to the end of the year , there fell From Jan. 1 , 1780 , to Jan. 1 , 1781 From Jan. 1 , 1781 , to Jan. 1 , 1782 From Jan. 1 , 1782 , to ...
... short date , I am not qualified to give the mean quantity . * I only know that From May 1 , 1779 , to the end of the year , there fell From Jan. 1 , 1780 , to Jan. 1 , 1781 From Jan. 1 , 1781 , to Jan. 1 , 1782 From Jan. 1 , 1782 , to ...
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... short in two . Another temptation to idleness and sporting , was a number of rabbits , which possessed all the hillocks and dry places ; but these being incon- venient to the huntsman , on account of their burrows , when they came to ...
... short in two . Another temptation to idleness and sporting , was a number of rabbits , which possessed all the hillocks and dry places ; but these being incon- venient to the huntsman , on account of their burrows , when they came to ...
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... crimson tags , or points which it carries at the ends of five of the short remiges . It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; D 2 MICE -GERMAN SILK - TAIL . 41 ricks and barns with the sheaves; abound in ...
... crimson tags , or points which it carries at the ends of five of the short remiges . It cannot , I suppose , with any propriety , be called an English bird ; D 2 MICE -GERMAN SILK - TAIL . 41 ricks and barns with the sheaves; abound in ...
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... short - winged soft - billed birds , which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them * See Adamson's Voyage to Senegal . abound till ...
... short - winged soft - billed birds , which come trooping in such numbers in the spring , I am at a loss even what to suspect about them . I watched them narrowly this year , and saw them * See Adamson's Voyage to Senegal . abound till ...
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