Natural History and Antiquities of SelborneMacmillan and Company, 1875 - 591 páginas |
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... house - martin , should leave us before the middle . of August invariably ! while the latter stay often till the middle of October ; once I even saw numbers of house - martins on the seventh of November . The martins , redwings , and ...
... house - martin , should leave us before the middle . of August invariably ! while the latter stay often till the middle of October ; once I even saw numbers of house - martins on the seventh of November . The martins , redwings , and ...
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... house - martins , about 400 in number ; but there are other places of rendezvous about the village frequented at the same time . It is remarkable that , though most of them sit on the battlements and roof , yet many of them hang or ...
... house - martins , about 400 in number ; but there are other places of rendezvous about the village frequented at the same time . It is remarkable that , though most of them sit on the battlements and roof , yet many of them hang or ...
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... house - martins have eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of ... house- martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the twentieth of November . At present I know only ...
... house - martins have eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of ... house- martin flying about , and settling on the parapet , so late as the twentieth of November . At present I know only ...
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... House - martins , which are always more backward than swallows , were not observed till May came in . Among the monogamous birds several are to be found single . after pairing - time , and of each sex : but whether this state of ...
... House - martins , which are always more backward than swallows , were not observed till May came in . Among the monogamous birds several are to be found single . after pairing - time , and of each sex : but whether this state of ...
Página 110
... house - martins do feed their young flying , though it must be acknowledged not so commonly as the house - swallow ; and the feat is done in so quick a manner as not to be perceptible to indifferent observers . He also advances some ( I ...
... house - martins do feed their young flying , though it must be acknowledged not so commonly as the house - swallow ; and the feat is done in so quick a manner as not to be perceptible to indifferent observers . He also advances some ( I ...
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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...