 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 pages
...along the fields." — ED. • j 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 the dexterity of a hoop shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies away, holding it secure... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, Frederick Smith - 1855 - 296 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | John Walton (F.L.S.) - 1856 - 756 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | John George Wood - 1865 - 710 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 680 pages
...address it strips off the pubes, running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and shaving it bare with the dexterity of a hoopshaver. When it has got a vast...flies away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs." After performing this part of her duty, she makes a number of cells, using the same... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 694 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 732 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop-shaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies... | |
 | John George Wood - 1866 - 674 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoopshaver. When it has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies away,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1875 - 366 pages
...has a downy stem, and there's some sort of bee which strips off the down from the stalk of this pink, "running from the top to the bottom of a branch, and...it bare with all the dexterity of a hoop-shaver." Hoop-shaver ? but I never saw so much as a hoopshaver ! Must see one on the first chance, only I suppose... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...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 the dexterity of a hoop shaver. When it has got avast bundle almost as large as itself, it flies away, holding it secure... | |
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There is a sort of wild bee frequenting the garden-campion 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... 
