The Natural History of SelborneArrowsmith, 1925 - 248 pages |
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Gilbert White, Richard Kearton. Young Carrion Crows . ( Note shells of eggs of Red Grouse they have sucked . ) " Massed Foliage . " FRONTISPIECE .
Gilbert White, Richard Kearton. Young Carrion Crows . ( Note shells of eggs of Red Grouse they have sucked . ) " Massed Foliage . " FRONTISPIECE .
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... Eggs Cormorant Cormorants • Corncrake : Corncrake or Land - rail on Nest Crow : Young Carrion Crows • Facing page 124 " 92 61 221 " " " " 45 126 " " 24 Frontispiece Facing page 128 Young Hoody , Grey , or Royston Crow Cuckoo Young ...
... Eggs Cormorant Cormorants • Corncrake : Corncrake or Land - rail on Nest Crow : Young Carrion Crows • Facing page 124 " 92 61 221 " " " " 45 126 " " 24 Frontispiece Facing page 128 Young Hoody , Grey , or Royston Crow Cuckoo Young ...
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... eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it was a straggler . Red - starts , fly - catchers , white - throats , and reguli non cristati , still appear ; but I have seen no black ...
... eggs still , and squab - young . The last swift I observed was about the twenty - first of August ; it was a straggler . Red - starts , fly - catchers , white - throats , and reguli non cristati , still appear ; but I have seen no black ...
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... of the waxlike tips on its secondary wing quills . It is an irregular winter visitor to the British Isles , very occasionally arriving in large flocks . - R . K. their eggs were put , in the spring , into 43 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
... of the waxlike tips on its secondary wing quills . It is an irregular winter visitor to the British Isles , very occasionally arriving in large flocks . - R . K. their eggs were put , in the spring , into 43 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
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Gilbert White, Richard Kearton. their eggs were put , in the spring , into the nests of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , greenfinches , etc. ? Before winter perhaps they might be hardened , and able to shift for themselves ...
Gilbert White, Richard Kearton. their eggs were put , in the spring , into the nests of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , greenfinches , etc. ? Before winter perhaps they might be hardened , and able to shift for themselves ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn birds of passage birds of prey breed brood called chaffinches colour common cuckoo curious DEAR district doubt eggs Facing feeding feet female fieldfares fish flocks forest frequently frost garden gentleman Gilbert White ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects known Lapwing larvæ late le ham legs LETTER Linnæus male manner martins mentioned migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbourhood neighbouring nest never night observed ornithologist owls parish perhaps prey procured quadrupeds RAII rain Red-backed Shrikes redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels season seems seen SELBORNE sing snow soft-billed sometimes soon species spring stone curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swifts tail titmouse trees vast village weather Whinchat white-throat wild willow-wren wings winter Wolmer wonder Woodlark woods wren Yellowhammer young