Natural History of Selborne: With Its Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar, Etc. ...Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1858 - 437 стор. |
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... egg , are most disproportionately small for the size of the species ; and , what is more to the present purpose , each successive egg requires a much longer time ( I believe full two or three weeks ) to attain its de- velopment ...
... egg , are most disproportionately small for the size of the species ; and , what is more to the present purpose , each successive egg requires a much longer time ( I believe full two or three weeks ) to attain its de- velopment ...
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... eggs in a nest formed of dry cow - dung and small roots , which in course of time becomes extremely fetid with the castings of the young . In autumn they associate in small flocks , frequenting pasture and meadow lands ; and they ...
... eggs in a nest formed of dry cow - dung and small roots , which in course of time becomes extremely fetid with the castings of the young . In autumn they associate in small flocks , frequenting pasture and meadow lands ; and they ...
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... eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August : it was a straggler . Brown Owl . Red starts , fly catchers , white throats , and reguli non cristati , still appear ; but I have seen no ...
... eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August : it was a straggler . Brown Owl . Red starts , fly catchers , white throats , and reguli non cristati , still appear ; but I have seen no ...
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... eggs were put , in the spring , into the nests of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , greenfinches , & c . ? Before winter perhaps they might be hardened , and able to shift for themselves . * About ten years ago I used to spend ...
... eggs were put , in the spring , into the nests of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , greenfinches , & c . ? Before winter perhaps they might be hardened , and able to shift for themselves . * About ten years ago I used to spend ...
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... eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the countryman , in stirring his fallows , often destroys them . The young run immediately from the egg like partridges , & c ...
... eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the countryman , in stirring his fallows , often destroys them . The young run immediately from the egg like partridges , & c ...
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The Natural History of Selborne: With Its Antiquities, Naturalist's Calendar ... Gilbert 1720-1793 White,Edward 1810-1873 Blyth,Robert 1777-1842 Mudie Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2021 |
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Сторінка 258 - 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 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Сторінка 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a 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 summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Сторінка 187 - For it is supposed that a shrewmouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Сторінка 179 - As the morning advanced the sun became bright and warm, and the day turned out one of those most lovely ones which no season but the autumn produces ; cloudless, calm, serene, and worthy of the South of France itself.
Сторінка 180 - 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. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of the page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from thence. But what I most wondered at was, that it went off with considerable velocity in a place where no air was stirring ; and I am sure that I did not assist it...
Сторінка 1 - The covert of this eminence is altogether beech, the most lovely of all forest trees, whether we consider its smooth rind or bark, its glossy foliage, or graceful pendulous boughs.
Сторінка 20 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffus'd 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 375 - 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 222 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the doors from nightly harm.