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... sing a little . They differ also in their habits , frequenting corn - fields and enclosures rather than the vicinity of water , and generally abound very much where sheep are pastured . The general character of their colouring is ...
... sing a little . They differ also in their habits , frequenting corn - fields and enclosures rather than the vicinity of water , and generally abound very much where sheep are pastured . The general character of their colouring is ...
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... sing upon the wing like larks , though I should sus- pect , from the diverse shape of the organs of flight , not exactly in the same manner . Here they are very gregarious , frequenting the open country , and are never seen to perch ...
... sing upon the wing like larks , though I should sus- pect , from the diverse shape of the organs of flight , not exactly in the same manner . Here they are very gregarious , frequenting the open country , and are never seen to perch ...
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... sing very like a linnet . - ED . Many species of small birds are liable to be thus affected by feeding much upon hemp - seed ; among others , the field - lark and the wood - lark , but none perhaps so readily as the alp , or " bull ...
... sing very like a linnet . - ED . Many species of small birds are liable to be thus affected by feeding much upon hemp - seed ; among others , the field - lark and the wood - lark , but none perhaps so readily as the alp , or " bull ...
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... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . * Mr. Ray This curious species , the brake ...
... sing at a yard distance , provided it be concealed . I was obliged to get a person to go on the other side of the hedge ... sings on the top of a twig , gaping and shivering with its wings . * Mr. Ray This curious species , the brake ...
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... sing its note is short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) ... sings from one of the topmost branches of a tall tree , or perched upon some high pinnacle of a building ...
... sing its note is short and imperfect , but is continued till about the middle of June . The willow - wrens ( the smaller sort ) ... sings from one of the topmost branches of a tall tree , or perched upon some high pinnacle of a building ...
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Page 337 - 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 4 - 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 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Page 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
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Page 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Page 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Page 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Page 228 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Page 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...