Natural history and antiquities of Selborne (1875)
White, Gilbert, 1720-1793, Buckland, Francis T. (Francis Trevelyan), 1826-1880, Selborne, Roundell Palmer, Earl of, 1812-1895, Delamotte, Philip H. (Philip Henry), 1821-1889, James Burn & Company, binder · London : Macmillan and Co. · leaf 219
LX. ] OF SELBORNE. 169 Are birds induced to sing again because the temperament of autumn resembles that of spring ? Linneus ranges plants geographically: palms inhabit the tropics, grasses the temperate zones, and mosses and lichens the polar circles ; no doubt animals may be classed in the same… … THE LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. House-sparrows build under eaves in the spring; as the weather becomes hotter they get out for coolness, and nest in plum-trees and apple-trees. These birds have been known sometimes to build in rooks’ nests, and sometimes in the forks of boughs under rooks’ nests. As my…
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