The Natural History of SelbourneJohn Lane, 1900 - 528 pages |
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Page 32
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath- fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the underwoods , woods , and coppices ...
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath- fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the underwoods , woods , and coppices ...
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... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping , The yellow willow - wren , Sylvia sibilatrix ( Phylloscopus sibilatrix ) .— Ed . The spotted fly - catcher , Muscicapa grisola . - ED . E - HN- Water Vole all at once , into The ...
... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping , The yellow willow - wren , Sylvia sibilatrix ( Phylloscopus sibilatrix ) .— Ed . The spotted fly - catcher , Muscicapa grisola . - ED . E - HN- Water Vole all at once , into The ...
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... April 18th , 1768 . REAR SIR , -The history of the stone - curlew , Charadrius ædicnemus , is as follows . It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the ...
... April 18th , 1768 . REAR SIR , -The history of the stone - curlew , Charadrius ædicnemus , is as follows . It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the ...
Page 83
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus , only that it is a size larger than the two ...
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus , only that it is a size larger than the two ...
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... April . I must not omit to tell you ( as you have been so lately on the study of reptiles ) that my people , every now and then of late , draw up with a bucket of water from my well , which is sixty - three feet deep , a large black ...
... April . I must not omit to tell you ( as you have been so lately on the study of reptiles ) that my people , every now and then of late , draw up with a bucket of water from my well , which is sixty - three feet deep , a large black ...
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