The Natural History of Selborne: With A Naturalist's Calendar & Additional ObservationsScott, 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 ...
Сторінка 88
... 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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The Natural History of Selborne: And the Naturalist's Calendar Gilbert White Перегляд фрагмента - 1879 |
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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
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Сторінка 60 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Сторінка 285 - 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 248 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it that, when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden; however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Сторінка 109 - As, when the dove her rocky hold forsakes, Roused in a fright, her sounding wings she shakes ; The cavern rings with clattering ; out she flies, And leaves her callow care, and cleaves the skies : At first she flutters ; but at length she springs To smoother flight, and shoots upon her wings : So Mnestheus in the Dolphin cuts the sea ; And, flying with a force, that force assists his way.
Сторінка 284 - ... alteration in the air. The sun, at noon, looked as blank as a clouded moon, and shed a rustcoloured ferruginous light on the ground, and floors of . rooms ; but was particularly lurid and blood-coloured at rising and setting. All the time the heat was so intense that butchers...
Сторінка 135 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Сторінка 187 - Even great disparity of kind and size does not always prevent social advances and mutual fellowship. For a very intelligent and observant person lias assured me that, in the former part of his life, keeping but one horse, he happened also on a time to have but one solitary hen. These two incongruous animals spent much of their time together in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these two sequestered individuals. The...
Сторінка 143 - ... much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.
Сторінка 24 - 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 336 - Resounds the living surface of the ground: Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclin'd, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.