The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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Page 87
... starlings are , they will seldom do this . But in the swallow , the instinct of suspicion is reversed ; an instinct of confidence occupies its place . In addition to the eave - swallow , to which I have chiefly alluded NATURE ON THE ...
... starlings are , they will seldom do this . But in the swallow , the instinct of suspicion is reversed ; an instinct of confidence occupies its place . In addition to the eave - swallow , to which I have chiefly alluded NATURE ON THE ...
Page 89
... starlings . Every crevice is the home of insects , or used by them for the deposit of their eggs - under the tiles or slates , where mortar has dropped out between the bricks , in the holes of thatch , and on the straws . The number of ...
... starlings . Every crevice is the home of insects , or used by them for the deposit of their eggs - under the tiles or slates , where mortar has dropped out between the bricks , in the holes of thatch , and on the straws . The number of ...
Page 100
... Starlings ran before the cows feeding in the aftermath , so close to their mouths as to seem in danger of being licked up by their broad tongues . All creatures , from the tiniest insect upward , were in reality busy under that curtain ...
... Starlings ran before the cows feeding in the aftermath , so close to their mouths as to seem in danger of being licked up by their broad tongues . All creatures , from the tiniest insect upward , were in reality busy under that curtain ...
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