The Natural History of SelborneConstable and Company, 1829 - 343 стор. |
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... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many 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 ...
... weeks . They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many 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 ...
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... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the * In 1810 , large flocks of this species were ...
... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the * In 1810 , large flocks of this species were ...
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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 London , 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 London , 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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