The Polar World: a Popular Description of Man and Nature in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions of the GlobeHarper & Brothers, 1869 - 486 sider |
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... spring , when the brown earth reappears from under the melted snow and the swamps begin to thaw , enormous flights of wild birds appear upon the scene and enliven it for a few months . An admirable instinct leads their winged legions ...
... spring , when the brown earth reappears from under the melted snow and the swamps begin to thaw , enormous flights of wild birds appear upon the scene and enliven it for a few months . An admirable instinct leads their winged legions ...
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... springs up , but the soil , being generally enriched and saturated with alkali , now no longer brings forth its aboriginal firs , but gives birth to a thicket of beeches ( Betula alba ) in Asia , or of aspens in America . FOREST ...
... springs up , but the soil , being generally enriched and saturated with alkali , now no longer brings forth its aboriginal firs , but gives birth to a thicket of beeches ( Betula alba ) in Asia , or of aspens in America . FOREST ...
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... springs down upon the first animal that comes within its reach . Sometimes also it steals unawares upon its prey , and suddenly bounding upon its back , kills it by a sin- gle bite in the neck . Many fables worthy of Münchausen have ...
... springs down upon the first animal that comes within its reach . Sometimes also it steals unawares upon its prey , and suddenly bounding upon its back , kills it by a sin- gle bite in the neck . Many fables worthy of Münchausen have ...
Side 40
... spring , when the softened snow gets covered during the night with a thin crust of ice which is too weak to bear the animal's weight . Though not ranging so far north as the reindeer or the elk , we find in the Old World the red - deer ...
... spring , when the softened snow gets covered during the night with a thin crust of ice which is too weak to bear the animal's weight . Though not ranging so far north as the reindeer or the elk , we find in the Old World the red - deer ...
Side 43
... spring are the snow- geese , who likewise are the first to leave the dreary regions of the north on their southerly migration . The common and king eider - duck , the Brent geese , THE SNOWY OWL . CXW.CRSS the great northern black and ...
... spring are the snow- geese , who likewise are the first to leave the dreary regions of the north on their southerly migration . The common and king eider - duck , the Brent geese , THE SNOWY OWL . CXW.CRSS the great northern black and ...
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