The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... my new discovery of the migration of the ring - ousel , gives me satisfaction ; and I find you concur with me in suspecting that they are very foreign birds which visit us . You will be 58 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... my new discovery of the migration of the ring - ousel , gives me satisfaction ; and I find you concur with me in suspecting that they are very foreign birds which visit us . You will be 58 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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... migration , it was last Michaelmas Day . I was travelling , and out early in the morning at first there was a vast fog ; but , by the time that I was got seven or eight miles from home towards the coast , the sun broke out into a ...
... migration , it was last Michaelmas Day . I was travelling , and out early in the morning at first there was a vast fog ; but , by the time that I was got seven or eight miles from home towards the coast , the sun broke out into a ...
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... migration , or hiding , imprinted on their minds by their great Creator ; and with some degree of mortification , when I reflected that , after all our pains and inquiries , we are yet not quite certain to what regions . they do migrate ...
... migration , or hiding , imprinted on their minds by their great Creator ; and with some degree of mortification , when I reflected that , after all our pains and inquiries , we are yet not quite certain to what regions . they do migrate ...
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... migration is southward ? Was not candour and openness the very life of natural history , I should pass over this ... migrate from the northward to us , to par- take of our milder winters , and return to the northward again when the ...
... migration is southward ? Was not candour and openness the very life of natural history , I should pass over this ... migrate from the northward to us , to par- take of our milder winters , and return to the northward again when the ...
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... migration this autumn , appearing , as before , about the 30th Sep- tember ; but their flocks were larger than common , and their stay protracted somewhat beyond the usual time . If they came to spend the whole winter with us , as some ...
... migration this autumn , appearing , as before , about the 30th Sep- tember ; but their flocks were larger than common , and their stay protracted somewhat beyond the usual time . If they came to spend the whole winter with us , as some ...
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