Country rambles
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共 29 段- flies within three thousand miles of our own haunts. Thus it
- I may perhaps be pardoned in relating here the good conduct
- The sweet Spanish potato (convolvulus batatus), a native of
- It is rather a subject of surprise, that in our general asso
- The fetid hellebore (helleborus fœtidus) is not a common pla
- The ivy[22] (hedera helix), the dark-looking ivy, almost cov
- Many impressions commonly fade away and become effaced as ot
- The certain appearance of many of the fungi can by no means
- The spines of the hedgehog are movable, not fixed and resist
- It is a difficult matter satisfactorily to comprehend the ob
- The construction and selected situations of the nests of bir
- The common jay (corvus glandarius) affords a good example of
- “Which, hushed in grim repose, awaits his certain prey.”
- The eggs produced by the wheatear are uniform in color and s
- Oct. 9.—A brilliant morning! warm, without oppression; exhil
- The causes that influence this snipe to lead so solitary a l
- for I have always been an admirer of these elegant creatures
- Our lepidopterous insects feed upon various substances in th
- Of all the active, vigilant creatures that animate our paths
- Superstition has been particularly active in suggesting caus
- Residing, as I constantly do, in the country, and having bee
- Revolving in our minds, as we old-mannered people often do,
- The notable exertions which vegetables occasionally make to
- Dec. 30.—A cold foggy morning, the ground covered with a whi
- “Having excavated, or found her hole, (a cavity in ground, o
- There are in Europe, some four hundred and sixty-two birds,
- Mr. Knapp mentions in his journal the following butterflies
- Let it not be supposed from the previous remarks, that as a
- As an event connected with the subject of temporary augmenta