The Natural History of SelborneConstable and Company, 1829 - 343 pages |
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Page xiv
... Snow - Fleck 88 Sociality of Brutes Soft billed Birds Soils Spiracula of Animals Squnck Sticklebacks Streams Summer Birds of Passage 107 , 5 142 230 128 5 , 6 51 91 66 Summer Birds , Return of Summer Evening Walk Superstitions of xiv INDEX ...
... Snow - Fleck 88 Sociality of Brutes Soft billed Birds Soils Spiracula of Animals Squnck Sticklebacks Streams Summer Birds of Passage 107 , 5 142 230 128 5 , 6 51 91 66 Summer Birds , Return of Summer Evening Walk Superstitions of xiv INDEX ...
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... snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow ...
... snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow ...
Page 50
... snow this month . [ Jan. 1768. ] My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ...
... snow this month . [ Jan. 1768. ] My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ...
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... snow- flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were . A few years ago , I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year , it began to look dingy , and ...
... snow- flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were . A few years ago , I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year , it began to look dingy , and ...
Page 92
... snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and strange it is , that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have ...
... snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and strange it is , that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have ...
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abound Alauda Andalusia animal appear April autumn bird of passage birds of prey breed British Zoology brood called chaffinches colour common congeners cuckoo curious discovered district dogs eggs feeding feet female fern-owl field fieldfares fish flocks frequently frost garden genus Gibraltar Greatham ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects late legs letter Linnæus mandible manner martins mentioned migration mole cricket morning Motacilla natural history naturalist nest never night observed ornithology owls pair perhaps prey procured quadrupeds RAII rain redwings remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ringousels season seems seen Selborne shot sing snow soft-billed soon species specimens spring stone stone curlew strange summer birds suppose Sussex swallow swifts tail titmouse torpid trees vast village weather Whip-poor-will wild wings winter Wolmer Forest wonder woodcocks Woodlark woods young Zoology