The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... seen in the same dead season . A crossbill ( Loxia curvirostra ) was killed last year in this neighbourhood . Our streams , which are small , and rise only at the end of the village , yield nothing but the bull's head or miller's thumb ...
... seen in the same dead season . A crossbill ( Loxia curvirostra ) was killed last year in this neighbourhood . Our streams , which are small , and rise only at the end of the village , yield nothing but the bull's head or miller's thumb ...
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... seen no blackcaps lately . I forgot to mention that I once saw , in Christ Church College quadrangle in Oxford , on a very sunny warm morning , a house - martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the 20th November ...
... seen no blackcaps lately . I forgot to mention that I once saw , in Christ Church College quadrangle in Oxford , on a very sunny warm morning , a house - martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the 20th November ...
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... seen before ; but that , I find , would be a difficult task . I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters , a young one and a female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape ...
... seen before ; but that , I find , would be a difficult task . I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters , a young one and a female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the colour , shape ...
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... seen in this neighbourhood . I employed some people to procure me a specimen , but without success . ( See Letter VIII . ) Query . - Might not Canary - birds be naturalised to this climate , provided their eggs were put , in the spring ...
... seen in this neighbourhood . I employed some people to procure me a specimen , but without success . ( See Letter VIII . ) Query . - Might not Canary - birds be naturalised to this climate , provided their eggs were put , in the spring ...
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... seen the viper open her mouth and admit her helpless young down her throat on sudden surprises , just as the female opossum does her brood into the pouch under her belly , upon the like emergencies ; and yet the London viper - catchers ...
... seen the viper open her mouth and admit her helpless young down her throat on sudden surprises , just as the female opossum does her brood into the pouch under her belly , upon the like emergencies ; and yet the London viper - catchers ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young