Philip Henry Gosse
The Romance of Natural History, Second Series
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Excerpt: ...Swallows with us. He mentions, on the authority of Lord Belhaven, that numbers of Swallows had been found in old dry walls and in sandhills near his lordship's seat in East-Lothian; not once only, but from year to year, and that when they were exposed to the warmth, they revived. He says, however, he cannot determine the particular species. 119 The same naturalist mentions many other instances in which they have been reported to be found, but he cannot give his personal voucher for the truth of the statements. Pg 200 As first in a decayed hollow tree, that was cut down near Dolgelly, in Merionethshire; secondly, in a cliff near Wh…
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Excerpt: ...Swallows with us. He mentions, on the authority of Lord Belhaven, that numbers of Swallows had been found in old dry walls and in sandhills near his lordship's seat in East-Lothian; not once only, but from year to year, and that when they were exposed to the warmth, they revived. He says, however, he cannot determine the particular species. 119 The same naturalist mentions many other instances in which they have been reported to be found, but he cannot give his personal voucher for the truth of the statements. Pg 200 As first in a decayed hollow tree, that was cut down near Dolgelly, in Merionethshire; secondly, in a cliff near Whitby, in Yorkshire, where, in digging out a fox, whole bushels of Swallows were found in a torpid condition; thirdly, the Rev. Mr Conway, of Lychton, Flintshire, a few years ago, between All Saints' and Christmas, on looking down an old lead mine in that county, observed numbers of Swallows clinging to the timbers of the shaft, seemingly asleep, and on flinging some gravel on them they just moved, but never attempted to fly or to change their place. 120 In some communications to the Zoologist for 1845, by the late Mr F. Holme, of Oxford, I find the following statement:-On the hybernation of this species (the House-swallow) I was told many years since, by old Wall, then keeper of the Kildare Street Museum, in Dublin, . that after a heavy snow, in the winter of 1825-26, on going into the mansarde to see whether the snow had melted through, he found four Chimney-swallows perched close together on a cross-beam, with their heads under their wings; but on approaching his hand to them they flew off, and escaped into the open air. 121 Again, Mr J. B. Ellman of Battel, says, There is a farmer named Waters, residing at Catsfield, (adjoining parish,) who informs me he has frequently (some years ago) dug Swallows out of banks in winter, while widening the ditches in the brooks, &c. 122 Pg 201 It is unfortunate that...
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-65301-5
- EAN: 9781153653015
- Produktnummer: 14786417
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 108 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.6 cm 227 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 227
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