 | Our pets - 1873 - 214 стор.
...about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there was no discovery to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a wheat-field,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878 - 542 стор.
...suspended between ears of corn, tall grasses, and the like. White procured one which, as he says, ' was so compact and well filled that it would roll...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.' The whole length of the harvest mouse is not more than two inches, and it is one of our most beautiful... | |
 | 1878 - 588 стор.
...suspended between ears of corn, tall grasses, and the like. White procured one which, as he says, ' was so compact and well filled that it would roll...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind.' The whole length of the harvest mouse is not more than two inches, and it is one of our most beautiful... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 стор.
...composed of the blades of whea^ perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering...belonged. It was so compact and well filled, that it would naked and blind. As this nest was perfectly full, hew could the dam come at her litter respectively... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1880 - 500 стор.
...composed of the blades of wheat, perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there was no discovering...discomposed, though it contained eight little mice, which were naked and blind. This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1880 - 668 стор.
...the blades of grass or wheat, perfectly round, and about the size of a cricketball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so compact and well-tilled that it would roll across the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight... | |
 | Beata Francis - 1881 - 280 стор.
...says, ' perfectly round,' and about the size of a cricket-ball, and so compact that it would roll about the table without being discomposed, though it contained eight little Mice that were naked and blind. It had no visible opening, and it was evident, he adds, 'that whenever the mother opened it to feed... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 стор.
...composed of blades of wheat, perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball, with the aperture so ingeniously closed that there was no discovering...contained eight little mice that were naked and blind. As the nest was perfectly full, how could the dam come at her litter respectively, so as to administer... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 556 стор.
...composed of blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It waa so compact and well filled that it would roll across the table without being discomposed, though... | |
 | Bristol Naturalists' Society (Avon) - 1891 - 862 стор.
...much as it gained in its increasing size." It will be remembered that White says that the nest he saw was " so compact and well filled that it would roll across the table without being discomposed." These conflicting statements may be reconciled, if we bear in mind that, according to Brehm, these... | |
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I procured this autumn, most artificially platted, and composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round, and about the size of a cricket-ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed, that there was no discovering to what part it belonged. It was so... 
