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... feed upon vegetables , but even upon certain definite species or genera of plants . " From this , " writes Schouw , " it will readily be concluded that forests are of great importance to insects . Myriads of these little animals live ...
... feed upon vegetables , but even upon certain definite species or genera of plants . " From this , " writes Schouw , " it will readily be concluded that forests are of great importance to insects . Myriads of these little animals live ...
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... feed ; and birds which build in low shrubs may , in default of finding such shelter , resort to hedges , but are not likely to accept forest trees as a substitute . Herba- ceous plants , and even fungi , have great dependence upon ...
... feed ; and birds which build in low shrubs may , in default of finding such shelter , resort to hedges , but are not likely to accept forest trees as a substitute . Herba- ceous plants , and even fungi , have great dependence upon ...
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... feed on roots , fruits . insects , or small animals . It is said , that if taken young it may easily be domesticated , but never be- come a very desirable companion , as it possesses an odour not entirely agreeable . By far the most ...
... feed on roots , fruits . insects , or small animals . It is said , that if taken young it may easily be domesticated , but never be- come a very desirable companion , as it possesses an odour not entirely agreeable . By far the most ...
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... feeding . It was creeping up and down a grass walk apparently in busy search for worms . It carried its snout very low , insinuating it among the roots of the herbage , and snuffing about under the dead leaves which lay about . After a ...
... feeding . It was creeping up and down a grass walk apparently in busy search for worms . It carried its snout very low , insinuating it among the roots of the herbage , and snuffing about under the dead leaves which lay about . After a ...
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... , coming out birds , and insects . Otus vulgaris . hides during the day in dense at dusk to feed on rats , mice , This bird , as well as some other L 2 Syrnium aluco . owls , has been credited with a fishing propensity . BIRDS . 145.
... , coming out birds , and insects . Otus vulgaris . hides during the day in dense at dusk to feed on rats , mice , This bird , as well as some other L 2 Syrnium aluco . owls , has been credited with a fishing propensity . BIRDS . 145.
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Página 148 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 147 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Página 93 - And, as the earth's first mercy, so they are its last gift to us. When all other service is vain, from plant and tree, the soft mosses and gray lichen take up their watch by the head-stone.
Página 59 - For him the wind, ay, and the yellow leaves, Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teachings. He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death Has lifted up for all, that he shall go To his long resting-place without a tear.
Página 259 - About nine an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated regions, and continuing, without any interruption, till the close of the day.
Página 56 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Página 35 - Whilom a twig of small regard to see, Though now so wide its waving branches flow, And work the simple vassals mickle woe ; For not a wind might curl the leaves that blew, But their limbs shudder'd and their pulse beat low, And as they look'd they found their horror grew, And shaped it into rods, and tingled at the view.
Página 8 - As the sward and moss disappear with the brushwood from the sides of the mountains, the waters falling in rain are no longer impeded in their course ; and instead of slowly augmenting the level of the rivers by progressive...
Página 253 - ... the mean number of viscid globules which occur on one-tenth of an inch of the elastic spiral line, at the ordinary degree of tension, the product will be 140, the mean number of globules deposited on seven-tenths of an inch of the elastic spiral line; this product multiplied by...