 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...is a Swede that fpealcsj after the middle of fummer, worms in lefs plenty, yearly goes into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. ' The female Chaffinches every...choofe to breed no more. In the fame manner, the female Carolina Yellow-hammer, in the month of September, while the rice on which flie feeds is laid up in... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...after the middle of summer, that worms are less plentiful in that country, goes annually into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland; but as the males stay in Sweden, the females come back next spring, except such as choose to breed no more. In the same... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Curiosities and wonders - 1821 - 768 pages
...starling, finding, after the middle of summer, that worms are less plentiful, goes annually into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland; but as the males stay in Sweden, the females come back in the spring, except such as do not chose to breed any longer.... | |
 | James Campbell (teacher of English.) - 1832 - 274 pages
...the starlings, after the middle of summer, finding that worms are less plentiful, go annually into Germany and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland; but as the males stay in Sweden, the females come back in the spring, except such as do not choose to breed any longer.... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...starling, finding, after the middle of summer, that worms are less plentiful, goes annually into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland ; but as the males stay in Sweden, the females come back in the spring, except such as do not choose to breed any longer.... | |
 | John Platts - Curiosities and wonders - 1876 - 986 pages
...after the middle of summer, that worms are less plentiful in that country, goes annually into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland ; but as the males stay in Sw-eden, the females come back next spring. In the same manner, the female Carolina yellowhammer,... | |
 | John Platts - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1882 - 558 pages
...after the middle of summer, that worms are less plentiful in that country, goes annually into Scania, Germany, and Denmark. The female chaffinches, every...Michaelmas, go in flocks to Holland ; but as the males stay in Sweden, the females come back next spring. In the same manner, the female Carolina yellowhammer,... | |
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In the same manner, the female Carolina yellow-hammer, in the month of September, while the rice on which she feeds is laid up in granaries, goes towards the south, and returns in the spring to seek... 