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... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
... April , according to the dryness of the season , such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head , and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the under- woods , woods , and coppices ...
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... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
... April I heard a slight twittering . This continued for some days , and I then inspected the nest and found a small hole about the size of a pea . This day by day increased , and at length three swallows emerged from their winter ...
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... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
... April , in the first fine weather , they come trooping all at once in these parts , but are never seen in the winter . They are delicate songsters . Numbers of snipes * breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish ...
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... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
... April 18 , 1768 . DEAR SIR , -The history of the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , is as follows : It lays its eggs , usually two , never more than three , on the bare ground , without any nest , in the field , so the countryman in ...
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... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
... April the 18th , I had told you peremptorily that I knew your willow - lark , but had not seen it then ; but , when I came to procure it , it proved in all respects a very motacilla trochilus ; only that it is a size larger than the two ...
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