Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan and Company, 1875 - 591 páginas |
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... cage birds , is Bechstein's " Cage and Chamber Birds . " In my Notes will be found information about birds , not copied 1 Bell and Sons , York Street , Covent Garden . Professor Newton is now bringing out a new edition of Yarrell's ...
... cage birds , is Bechstein's " Cage and Chamber Birds . " In my Notes will be found information about birds , not copied 1 Bell and Sons , York Street , Covent Garden . Professor Newton is now bringing out a new edition of Yarrell's ...
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... cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . P.H.D. THE BULLFINCH . WJP S In about a year it began to look dingy ; and blackening every succeeding year , it became coal - black at the end of four ...
... cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . P.H.D. THE BULLFINCH . WJP S In about a year it began to look dingy ; and blackening every succeeding year , it became coal - black at the end of four ...
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... cage than I should be able to give them : they are both dis- tinguished songsters . The note of the blackcap has such a wild sweetness that it always brings to my mind those lines in a song in As You Like It , - " And tune his merry ...
... cage than I should be able to give them : they are both dis- tinguished songsters . The note of the blackcap has such a wild sweetness that it always brings to my mind those lines in a song in As You Like It , - " And tune his merry ...
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... cage that always sang as long as candles were in the room ; but in their wild state no one supposes they sing in the night . I should be almost ready to doubt the fact , that there are to be seen much fewer birds in July than in any ...
... cage that always sang as long as candles were in the room ; but in their wild state no one supposes they sing in the night . I should be almost ready to doubt the fact , that there are to be seen much fewer birds in July than in any ...
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... cage , that I fear if I had one it would soon die for want of skill in feeding . Was your reed - sparrow , which you kept in a cage , the thick- billed reed - sparrow of the " Zoology , " p . 30 ; or was it the less reed - sparrow of ...
... cage , that I fear if I had one it would soon die for want of skill in feeding . Was your reed - sparrow , which you kept in a cage , the thick- billed reed - sparrow of the " Zoology , " p . 30 ; or was it the less reed - sparrow of ...
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton Gilbert White Visualização integral - 1905 |
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Allectus animal appear April autumn bird-catchers birds bishop Bishop of Winchester blackbird blackcap breed called chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious deer district eggs feed feet fieldfares fish flocks Forest frequently frost garden Gilbert White grass ground haunt hirundines Hirundo HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON hoopoe house-martins inches insects July July 14 July 22 June June 11 June 9 late legs LETTER Linnæus London manner martins migration morning natural neighbour nest never Newton Valence night nightingale observed owls pair parish ponds prior quadrupeds redwings remarkable season seems Selborne Sept sings snake song species specimen spots spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallow swift tail THOMAS PENNANT thrush titmouse trees village wagtail weather White wild wings winter Wolmer wonderful Woodlark woodpecker woods wren young
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Página 68 - 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.
Página 523 - And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
Página 23 - Now scarcely moving through a reedy pool, Now starting to a sudden stream, and now Gently diffused 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.
Página 78 - Amusive birds ! say where your hid retreat When the frost rages and the tempests beat ; Whence your return, by such nice instinct led, When Spring, soft season, lifts her bloomy head ? Such baffled searches mock man's prying pride, The GOD of NATURE is your secret guide...
Página 290 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Página 96 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them.
Página 251 - Yet there is a season of the year (usually the beginning- of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning ; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant field. The motives that impel him to undertake these rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent on sexual...
Página 137 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices : for, as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity ; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only "the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Página 147 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight.
Página 121 - 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...