The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 pages |
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Page 38
... fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds ! A little yellow bird † ( it is either a species of the alauda trivialis , or rather , perhaps , of the motacilla trochilus ) still ...
... fieldfares were flying in sight together ; an uncommon assemblage of summer and winter birds ! A little yellow bird † ( it is either a species of the alauda trivialis , or rather , perhaps , of the motacilla trochilus ) still ...
Page 51
... fieldfares do con- gregate with a gentle twittering before they make their respective departures . You may depend on it that the bunting , emberiza miliaria , does not leave this country in the winter . In January , 1767 , I saw several ...
... fieldfares do con- gregate with a gentle twittering before they make their respective departures . You may depend on it that the bunting , emberiza miliaria , does not leave this country in the winter . In January , 1767 , I saw several ...
Page 95
... Fieldfare , 4. Royston - crow , 5. Woodcock , 6. Snipe , 7. Jack - snipe , 8. Wood - pigeon , 9. Wild - swan , 10. Wild - goose , 11. Wild - duck , 12. Pochard , 13. Widgeon , 14. Teal , breeds with us in Wolmer Forest . 15. Crossbeak ...
... Fieldfare , 4. Royston - crow , 5. Woodcock , 6. Snipe , 7. Jack - snipe , 8. Wood - pigeon , 9. Wild - swan , 10. Wild - goose , 11. Wild - duck , 12. Pochard , 13. Widgeon , 14. Teal , breeds with us in Wolmer Forest . 15. Crossbeak ...
Page 96
... fieldfares ; and especially as ring - ousels are known to haunt cold mountain- ous countries : but I have good reason to suspect since , that they may come to us from the westward ; because I hear from very good authority , that they ...
... fieldfares ; and especially as ring - ousels are known to haunt cold mountain- ous countries : but I have good reason to suspect since , that they may come to us from the westward ; because I hear from very good authority , that they ...
Page 102
... fieldfares which are so congenerous to thrushes and blackbirds , should never choose to breed in England : but that they should not think even the Highlands cold , and northerly , and seques- tered enough , is a circumstance still more ...
... fieldfares which are so congenerous to thrushes and blackbirds , should never choose to breed in England : but that they should not think even the Highlands cold , and northerly , and seques- tered enough , is a circumstance still more ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young