The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 стор. |
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... livings , but his fondness for his native village - his love of the country and its pursuits , and especially that of Natural History - made him decline all preferment . There can be no doubt that the " X A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF.
... livings , but his fondness for his native village - his love of the country and its pursuits , and especially that of Natural History - made him decline all preferment . There can be no doubt that the " X A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF.
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Gilbert White. preferment . There can be no doubt that the " shades of old Selborne , so lovely and sweet , " were peculiarly well adapted for the observations of a lover of nature ; and here Mr. White passed his days either in ...
Gilbert White. preferment . There can be no doubt that the " shades of old Selborne , so lovely and sweet , " were peculiarly well adapted for the observations of a lover of nature ; and here Mr. White passed his days either in ...
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... doubt of it ; for in April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the ...
... doubt of it ; for in April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the ...
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... doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the mus domesticus medius of Ray , and have more of the squirrel or dormouse colour . Their belly is white ; a straight line along their sides ...
... doubt but that the species is nondescript . They are much smaller , and more slender , than the mus domesticus medius of Ray , and have more of the squirrel or dormouse colour . Their belly is white ; a straight line along their sides ...
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... doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . * Mr. Ray observed that at Malta , the owners * In answer to this account , Mr. Pennant sent me the following curious and pertinent reply : - " I was much ...
... doubt these additional nostrils are thrown open when they are hard run . * Mr. Ray observed that at Malta , the owners * In answer to this account , Mr. Pennant sent me the following curious and pertinent reply : - " I was much ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young