The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Variuous Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar |
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... wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeoman prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to anything in Mr. Astley's riding - school ...
... wonder for years afterwards . I saw myself one of the yeoman prickers single out a stag from the herd , and must confess that it was the most curious feat of activity I ever beheld , superior to anything in Mr. Astley's riding - school ...
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... wonder how the young ones would manage , or whether they would be left to starve . To my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were ...
... wonder how the young ones would manage , or whether they would be left to starve . To my great surprise I found the old birds carrying mud one morning , and most carefully closing the aperture of the nest upon the young ones who were ...
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... wonder that the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird ; it abounds in all the champaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex , and breeds , I think , all the summer , having young ones , I ...
... wonder that the stone curlew , charadrius oedicnemus , should be mentioned by the writers as a rare bird ; it abounds in all the champaign parts of Hampshire and Sussex , and breeds , I think , all the summer , having young ones , I ...
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... wonder to find that the organs of that little animal , when put in motion , gave a sensible vibration to the whole building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to ...
... wonder to find that the organs of that little animal , when put in motion , gave a sensible vibration to the whole building ! This bird also sometimes makes a small squeak , repeated four or five times ; and I have observed that to ...
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... wonder . If one looks into the writers on that subject , little satisfaction is to be found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausi ble arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is ...
... wonder . If one looks into the writers on that subject , little satisfaction is to be found . Ingenious men will readily advance plausi ble arguments to support whatever theory they shall choose to maintain ; but then the misfortune is ...
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