 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 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...flies away, 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 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 a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flies away, holding it secure... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1880 - 552 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...has got a vast bundle, almost as large as itself, it flics away, holding it secure between its chin and its fore legs. There is a remarkable hill on the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1884 - 604 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 392 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...flies away, 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 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...flies away, 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 534 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...flies away, 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 512 pages
...downv stem, atid 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...shaving it bare with all the dexterity of a hoopshaver." Hoop-shaver ? but I never saw so much as a hoop-shaver ! Must see one on the first chance, only I suppose... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 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... 
