The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature, and the Naturalist's CalendarGeorge Bell and Sons, 1888 - 416 pages |
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... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
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... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
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... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
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... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
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... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
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abound Andalusia animal appear April autumn bats birds of passage birds of prey blackcap breed brood cage called chaffinches cold colour cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR deer district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares flies flight flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost hatched haunt hedges hirundines hirundo hoopoes house-martins inches Indian antelope insects late legs LETTER Linnæus male mandible manner March MARKWICK mentioned migration mild morning naturalist neighbourhood neighbouring nest never night observed pair perhaps pheasant prey probably procured quadrupeds rain remarkable remiges ring-dove rooks says season seems seen SELBORNE showers sing snow soon species spring stone curlew suppose Sussex swallows swarm swifts tail THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees vast village warm weather White wild wings winter Wolmer wonder woodcocks woods wren young
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