The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar, EtcW.S. Orr and Company, 1850 - 418 páginas |
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... Males Total of baptisms from 1720 to 1779 , both inclusive ( 60 years ) 980 . Average of burials for 60 years . From 1740 M. 4,6 515 980 Females 465 From 1760 1729 , both years inclu . From 1730 to 1739 , both Males 4,8 Females 5,1 Males ...
... Males Total of baptisms from 1720 to 1779 , both inclusive ( 60 years ) 980 . Average of burials for 60 years . From 1740 M. 4,6 515 980 Females 465 From 1760 1729 , both years inclu . From 1730 to 1739 , both Males 4,8 Females 5,1 Males ...
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... males of them spread the tail , and strut , and drop their wings in the style of the turkey and pea - fowl , a habit which is observed in no species of the ptarmigan genus , nor in any mono- gamous kind with which I am acquainted , but ...
... males of them spread the tail , and strut , and drop their wings in the style of the turkey and pea - fowl , a habit which is observed in no species of the ptarmigan genus , nor in any mono- gamous kind with which I am acquainted , but ...
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... male black grouse have been destroyed . They are interesting , as indicative of me close affinity between the genera ... males of most polygamous birds are very careless about the welfare of their progeny , but this is not the case with ...
... male black grouse have been destroyed . They are interesting , as indicative of me close affinity between the genera ... males of most polygamous birds are very careless about the welfare of their progeny , but this is not the case with ...
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... male ( which is known by being of a redder colour ) cries hoop , hoop , ' " whence the name of the species . This bird breeds in the holes of trees , laying from two to four speckled eggs in a nest formed of dry cow - dung and small ...
... male ( which is known by being of a redder colour ) cries hoop , hoop , ' " whence the name of the species . This bird breeds in the holes of trees , laying from two to four speckled eggs in a nest formed of dry cow - dung and small ...
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... existence ; aud , like the rest of its tribe which inhabit the open country , is in some seasons very much more plentiful than in others . - ED . pronounced it the male garrulus bohemicus , or German silk. 32 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... existence ; aud , like the rest of its tribe which inhabit the open country , is in some seasons very much more plentiful than in others . - ED . pronounced it the male garrulus bohemicus , or German silk. 32 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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abound animals appear April April 14 April 22 autumn birds bishop bishop of Winchester blackcap breed brood called canons chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR SIR district ecclesie eggs feed feet female fieldfares flocks forest frequent frost garden genus Gilbert White ground Hanger haunts hedges hill hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects Item July July 13 July 22 June June 12 June 9 known late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 mentioned migration naturalist nest never night observed parish PENNANT perhaps plumage ponds probably rain remarkable season seems seen Selborne Seleburne Sept showers sings snow sometimes species spot spring stone curlews summer suppose Surrey swallow swift tail titmouse trees village vulgaris weather White wild wings winter woods young
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Página 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Página 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Página 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Página 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Página 140 - 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...
Página 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Página 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Página 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Página 228 - 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.
Página 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...