The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of SouthamptonBickers and Son, 1884 - 568 pages |
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... eggs and young of grouse and other game , as little other inconvenience is apt to ensue when no woods are in the vicinity . The Rev. J. Mitford has observed that the description of the con- flagration arising from the heath - fires here ...
... eggs and young of grouse and other game , as little other inconvenience is apt to ensue when no woods are in the vicinity . The Rev. J. Mitford has observed that the description of the con- flagration arising from the heath - fires here ...
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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 ; 1 but I have seen no ...
... 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 ; 1 but I have seen no ...
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... eggs were put , in the spring , into the nest of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , green- finches , & c . ? Before winter , perhaps , they might be hard- ened , and able to shift for themselves . About ten years ago , I used to ...
... eggs were put , in the spring , into the nest of some of their congeners , as goldfinches , green- finches , & c . ? Before winter , perhaps , they might be hard- ened , and able to shift for themselves . About ten years ago , I used to ...
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... eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the countryman , in stirring his fal- lows , often destroys them . The young run immediately from the egg like partridges , & c ...
... eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field ; so that the countryman , in stirring his fal- lows , often destroys them . The young run immediately from the egg like partridges , & c ...
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In the County of Southampton Gilbert White. bird , may be eluded . The eggs are short and round ; of a dirty white , spotted with dark bloody blotches . Though I might not be able , just when I pleased , to procure you a bird , yet I ...
In the County of Southampton Gilbert White. bird , may be eluded . The eggs are short and round ; of a dirty white , spotted with dark bloody blotches . Though I might not be able , just when I pleased , to procure you a bird , yet I ...
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Page 313 - Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, JOHN MILTON. 345 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 151 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 225 - ... with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb. Against this accident, to which they were continually liable, our provident forefathers always kept a shrew-ash at hand, which, when once medicated, would maintain its virtue for ever. A shrew-ash was made thus :* — Into the body of the tree a deep hole was bored with an auger, and a poor devoted shrew-mouse was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no doubt, with several quaint incantations long since forgotten.
Page 7 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings; where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Page 426 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Page 313 - THE summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phenomena ; for, besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrighted and distressed the different counties of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smoky fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.
Page 171 - Faunists, as you observe, are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions, and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study, but the investigation of the life and conversation of animals, is a concern of much more trouble and difficulty, and is not be attained but by the active and inquisitive, and by those that reside much in the country.
Page 137 - Qualis spelunca subito commota columba, Cui domus et dulces latebroso in pumice nidi, Fertur in arva volans, plausumque exterrita pennis 215 Dat tecto ingentem, mox aere lapsa quieto Radit iter liquidum, celeres neque commovet alas : Sic Mnestheus, sic ipsa fuga secat ultima Pristis Aequora, sic illam fert impetus ipse volantem.
Page 255 - England gleads, from the Saxon verb glidan, to glide. The kestrel or windhover, has a peculiar mode of hanging in the air in one place, his wings all the while being briskly agitated.
Page 225 - ... it is supposed that a shrew-mouse is of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.