The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... tail and back , and some have not . LETTER XIX . SELBORNE , August 17th , 1768 . I HAVE now , past dispute , made out three distinct species of the willow - wrens ( Motacilla trochili ) which constantly and invariably use distinct notes ...
... tail and back , and some have not . LETTER XIX . SELBORNE , August 17th , 1768 . I HAVE now , past dispute , made out three distinct species of the willow - wrens ( Motacilla trochili ) which constantly and invariably use distinct notes ...
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... tail and yellow belly . How they first came down at that depth , and how they were ever to have got out thence without help , is more than I am able to say . My thanks are due to you for your trouble and care in the examination of a ...
... tail and yellow belly . How they first came down at that depth , and how they were ever to have got out thence without help , is more than I am able to say . My thanks are due to you for your trouble and care in the examination of a ...
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... tail , in an attitude well expressed by your draughtsman in the folio " British Zoology . " This bird is most punctual in beginning its song exactly at the close of day ; so exactly that I have known it strike up more than once or twice ...
... tail , in an attitude well expressed by your draughtsman in the folio " British Zoology . " This bird is most punctual in beginning its song exactly at the close of day ; so exactly that I have known it strike up more than once or twice ...
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... tail sharp - pointed ; the bill is dusky and sharp , and the legs are dusky ; the hinder claw long and crooked . " The person that shot it says that it sung so like a reed- sparrow that he took it for one ; and that it sings all night ...
... tail sharp - pointed ; the bill is dusky and sharp , and the legs are dusky ; the hinder claw long and crooked . " The person that shot it says that it sung so like a reed- sparrow that he took it for one ; and that it sings all night ...
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... neighbour's peacocks , I could not help observing that the trains of those magnificent birds appear by no means to be their tails ; those long feathers growing not from their uropygium , but all up 88 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... neighbour's peacocks , I could not help observing that the trains of those magnificent birds appear by no means to be their tails ; those long feathers growing not from their uropygium , but all up 88 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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