Holiday PapersR. Hardwicke, 1864 - 431 pages |
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... nests by scores in the ragged moss- grown roof . Every beam and rafter in that shed was as familiar to me as a mountain - pass to the deer - stalker . Year after year , we climbed , tore our clothes , and the skin off our knuckles , in ...
... nests by scores in the ragged moss- grown roof . Every beam and rafter in that shed was as familiar to me as a mountain - pass to the deer - stalker . Year after year , we climbed , tore our clothes , and the skin off our knuckles , in ...
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... nests are composed of . The grebe seldom takes to the wing , and makes a very bad hand of walking , its legs being placed so far astern as to render it difficult for the body to be supported ... Nest 63 sometimes sticking up only bill enough.
... nests are composed of . The grebe seldom takes to the wing , and makes a very bad hand of walking , its legs being placed so far astern as to render it difficult for the body to be supported ... Nest 63 sometimes sticking up only bill enough.
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... nest is always dripping wet through . The eggs , about five in number , are laid in a squashy heap of weeds ; the ... nest . The eggs of coots and waterhens , on the contrary , are hatched dry , never change their colour , and are always ...
... nest is always dripping wet through . The eggs , about five in number , are laid in a squashy heap of weeds ; the ... nest . The eggs of coots and waterhens , on the contrary , are hatched dry , never change their colour , and are always ...
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Harry Jones. 64 Wanton Sport . the parent quits its nest . But the dabchick's egg might set would - be zoologists together by the ears , as much as the chameleon did the opinionated travellers . ' Tis white ! ' tis mottled ! no , ' tis ...
Harry Jones. 64 Wanton Sport . the parent quits its nest . But the dabchick's egg might set would - be zoologists together by the ears , as much as the chameleon did the opinionated travellers . ' Tis white ! ' tis mottled ! no , ' tis ...
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... nesting and rabbiting , states that " the first lessons of the young loon in diving are taken beneath the literal shelter of their mother's wing . " In this case , supposing the instinctive expectancy of the newly hatched led them to ...
... nesting and rabbiting , states that " the first lessons of the young loon in diving are taken beneath the literal shelter of their mother's wing . " In this case , supposing the instinctive expectancy of the newly hatched led them to ...
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