 | Stephen Glover - 1829 - 600 páginas
...first seen about the fifteenth of April, about lakes and mill ponds. In general this Airundo builds in chimneys ; and loves to haunt those stacks where...is a constant fire, no doubt for the sake of warmth ; it disregards the perpetual smoke of the tunnel, and begins to build its nest five or six feet down... | |
 | Stephen Glover - 1831 - 510 páginas
..."first seen about the fifteenth of April, about lakes and mill ponds. In general this hirmio builds in chimneys ; and loves to haunt those stacks where...is a constant fire, no doubt for the sake of warmth ; it disregards the perpetual smoke of the tunnel, and begins to build its nest five or six feet down... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 páginas
...chalk had been formerly drawn up, for the purpose of manure ; but, in general, with us this kirundo breeds in chimneys, and loves to haunt those stacks...immediate shaft where there is a fire ; but prefers one adjoining1 to that of the kitchen, and disregards the perpetual smoke of that funnel, as 1 have often... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 páginas
...shaft of an old well, through which chalk had been formerly drawn up for the purpose of manure: but in general with us this Hirundo breeds in chimneys...warmth. Not that it can subsist in the immediate shaft wiiere there is a fire ; but prefers one adjoining to that of the kitchen, and disregards the perpetual... | |
 | Wonders - 1848 - 496 páginas
...and loves to haunt the stack where a continual fire is kept up, not that it can subsist in a chimney where there is a fire, but prefers one adjoining to that of .the kitchen, where it disregards the per'petual smoke in a very surprising manner. About five or six feet down the... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1852 - 516 páginas
...Thus Gilbert White says, in his "Natural History of Selborne," that "in general with us, this Ilirundo breeds in chimneys; and loves to haunt those stacks...there is a constant fire, no doubt for the sake of the warmth; not that it can subsist in the immediate shaft where there is a fire, but prefers one adjoining... | |
 | British land birds - 1857 - 318 páginas
...chimneys, she constructs her nest in porches, gateways, and similar situations. Here she prefers to breed in chimneys, and loves to haunt those stacks where there is a constant fire ; doubtless, for the sake of the warmth. Some five or six feet down the chimney, about the middle of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1858 - 454 páginas
...shaft of an old well, through which chalk had been formerly drawn up for the purpose of manure : but in general with us this hirundo breeds in chimneys...the sake of warmth. Not that it can subsist in the inlmediate shaft where there is a fire ; but prefers one adjoining to that of the kitchen, and disregards... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 páginas
...formerly drawn up for the purpose of manure : but in general with us this hirundo breeds in chimnies; and loves to haunt those stacks where there is a constant...can subsist in the immediate shaft where there is afire; but prefers one adjoining to that of the kitchen, and disregards the perpetual smoke of that... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1864 - 448 páginas
...shaft of an old well, through which chalk had been formerly drawn up, for the purpose of manure ; but, in general, with us this hirundo breeds in chimneys,...can subsist in the immediate shaft where there is .•i fire ; but prefers one adjoining to that of the kitchen, and disregards the perpetual smoke of... | |
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... open halls. Here and there a bird may affect some odd, peculiar place ; as we have known a swallow build down the shaft of an old well, through which chalk had been formerly drawn up, for the purpose of manure ; but, in general, with us this hirundo... 
