The Natural History of SelborneD. Appleton, 1899 - 381 pages |
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Page vii
... owl , hawking round the giant oak in pursuit of fern- chafers , yet ever most intent in observing the migrants , and in following swift and swallow as they " in rapid , giddy ring , Dash round the steeple , unsubdued of wing . " The ...
... owl , hawking round the giant oak in pursuit of fern- chafers , yet ever most intent in observing the migrants , and in following swift and swallow as they " in rapid , giddy ring , Dash round the steeple , unsubdued of wing . " The ...
Page xiv
... owl or goat - sucker , a favorite also with Thoreau , — the reader will place the swallow tribe on an equal plane . To these he recurs continually , much as does the Walden phi- losopher to his mysterious " night - warbler , " and his owl ...
... owl or goat - sucker , a favorite also with Thoreau , — the reader will place the swallow tribe on an equal plane . To these he recurs continually , much as does the Walden phi- losopher to his mysterious " night - warbler , " and his owl ...
Page 29
... owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks ; when full , like a dog , it hides what it cannot eat . The young of the barn - owl are not easily raised , as they want a ...
... owl , I find that it casts up the fur of mice , and the feathers of birds in pellets , after the manner of hawks ; when full , like a dog , it hides what it cannot eat . The young of the barn - owl are not easily raised , as they want a ...
Page 31
... owls ' nests , when the smell from one particular hole was so dreadful that we put some lighted paper down to see what would come out ; and to our astonishment dozens of large , reddish bats flew out , and dashed madly about in the ...
... owls ' nests , when the smell from one particular hole was so dreadful that we put some lighted paper down to see what would come out ; and to our astonishment dozens of large , reddish bats flew out , and dashed madly about in the ...
Page 42
... owl , Fly - catcher , LINNEI NOMINA Rallus crex . Motacilla trochilus . Motacilla phænicurus . Caprimulgus europæus . Muscicapa grisola . My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with its bill against a dead bough , or ...
... owl , Fly - catcher , LINNEI NOMINA Rallus crex . Motacilla trochilus . Motacilla phænicurus . Caprimulgus europæus . Muscicapa grisola . My countrymen talk much of a bird that makes a clatter with its bill against a dead bough , or ...
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