The Natural History of SelborneLibrary of Alexandria, 1911 M01 1 - 252 pages |
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... ringousels, turdi torquati. This week twelve months a gentleman from London, being with us, was amusing himself with agun, andfound, hetold us,on an oldyewhedgewhere there were berries, some birds like blackbirds, withrings ofwhite ...
... ringousels, turdi torquati. This week twelve months a gentleman from London, being with us, was amusing himself with agun, andfound, hetold us,on an oldyewhedgewhere there were berries, some birds like blackbirds, withrings ofwhite ...
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... ringousel, gives mesatisfaction; andIfind youconcurwith mein suspecting that theyare foreign birds which visitus.You will be sure, I hope,nottoomit to make inquirywhether your ringousels leaveyour rocks inthe autumn. Whatpuzzles me most ...
... ringousel, gives mesatisfaction; andIfind youconcurwith mein suspecting that theyare foreign birds which visitus.You will be sure, I hope,nottoomit to make inquirywhether your ringousels leaveyour rocks inthe autumn. Whatpuzzles me most ...
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... ringousels did the same, as well as their congenersthefieldfares; and especially as ringousels are known to haunt cold mountainouscountries: butIhave good reasonto suspect since that they may come to us from westward; because I hear ...
... ringousels did the same, as well as their congenersthefieldfares; and especially as ringousels are known to haunt cold mountainouscountries: butIhave good reasonto suspect since that they may come to us from westward; because I hear ...
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... ringousels again among their native crags; and are farther assured that theycontinueresident inthose cold regionsthe whole year. From whence, then, do our ringouselsmigrate soregularly every September, and make their appearance again ...
... ringousels again among their native crags; and are farther assured that theycontinueresident inthose cold regionsthe whole year. From whence, then, do our ringouselsmigrate soregularly every September, and make their appearance again ...
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