 ... for the sake of its tomentum, which probably it turns to some purpose in the business of nidification. It is very pleasant to see with what address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all...  List of British Curculionidæ, with Synonyma - Page 153by John Walton (F.L.S.) - 1856 - 46 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...insect strips offthe down, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and fore legs .f.." Sir Thomas Culkim in a letter to Mr. Marsham says, " I observed in a lock to one of... | |
 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...insect strips off the down, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a. vast bundle, almost as large as itscjf, it flies away, holding it secure between its chin and fore legs*." Sir Thomas Cullum, in a... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...down from the campion, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare, with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and fore-legs." Sir Thomas Cullum, in a letter to Mr. Marsham, states, that the key not easily turning... | |
 | James Rennie - 1830 - 440 pages
...from the top to the bottom of the branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore-legs*." The manner in which the cells of the nest are » Naturalists' Calendar, p. 109. made seems... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 pages
...from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes, in Sussex, known by the name of Mount Carburn,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes, in Sussex, known by the name of Mount Carburn,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop shaver11. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Sussex, known by the name of Mount Carburn, which... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop shaver11. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Sussex, known by the name of Mount Carburn, which... | |
 | 1911 - 856 pages
...bottom of a branch (of the Garden Campion) and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoop shaver; when it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and forelegs." Literature and life abound with such scraps of inevitable observation, but England has not... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a...holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the downs near Lewes in Sussex, known by the name of Mount Carburn, which... | |
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