Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan and Company, 1875 - 591 стор. |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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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... bird would do the same . Birds of prey occasionally feed on insects : thus have I seen a tame kite picking up the female ants full of eggs with much satisfaction . ] -OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . LETTER XI . TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . IT ...
... bird would do the same . Birds of prey occasionally feed on insects : thus have I seen a tame kite picking up the female ants full of eggs with much satisfaction . ] -OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . LETTER XI . TO THOMAS PENNANT , ESQ . IT ...
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton Gilbert White Повний перегляд - 1905 |
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Сторінка 68 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 523 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
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 78 - Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Сторінка 290 - 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 96 - 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 251 - Yet there is a season of the year (usually the beginning- of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning ; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on sexual...
Сторінка 137 - ... way. 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 147 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight.
Сторінка 121 - 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...