 About an hour before sunset (for then the mice begin to run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosuies for them, which seem to be their only food. In this irregular country we can stand on an eminence...  The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist - Seite 941842Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 Seiten
...run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn. ! have minuted these birds with my watch for an hour together, and have found that they return to their... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 Seiten
...run,) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...eminence and see them beat the fields over like a setting dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn. I have minuted these birds with my watch for... | |
 | 1835 - 284 Seiten
...run), they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...country, we can stand on an eminence, and see them boat the fields over like a setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn. I have minuted these... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 Seiten
...run,) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...or corn. I have minuted these birds with my watch tor an hour together, and have found, that they return to their nest, the one or the other of them,... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1842 - 1364 Seiten
...orchards, and small enclosures near out-buildings. " In this irregular country," says White of Selborne, " we can stand on an eminence and see them beat the fields over like a setting dog, and often drop down in the ïrass or corn." Besides rats and mice, they feed on shrews,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 Seiten
...run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn. I have miliiniil'u",, that what hefore was regarded as the unavoidable consequence of a fortuitous circumstance,... | |
 | 1902 - 874 Seiten
...run) they sally forth In quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...see them beat the fields over like a setting-dog, often dropping down in the grass or corn. I have minuted these birds with my watch for au hour together,... | |
 | 1847 - 490 Seiten
...hedgerows, orchards, or near out-buildings. In some parts, if we stand on an eminence, we may observe them beat the fields over, like a setting-dog, and often drop down in the grass or corn. Their food consists of young rats, mice, shrews, small birds, and insects, and they, have even been... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1849 - 416 Seiten
...run) they sally forth in quest of prey, and hunt all round the hedges of meadows and small inclosures for them, which seem to be their only food. In this...beat the fields over like a setting-dog, and often * This resolution requires great self-control. There is hardly an owl in the five quarters of the world... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 Seiten
...quest of prey, and hunt all around the hedges of meadows and small enclosures for mice, which seein to be their only food. In this irregular country, we can stand upon an eminence, and see them beat the fields like a setting dog, and often drop down in the grass... | |
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