 ... object of their operations, I have found many heads of plantains, the little autumnal dandelions, and other plants, drawn out of the ground and scattered about, their roots having been eaten off by a grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface....  The Quarterly Journal Of Agriculture - Page 307by William Blackwood - 1831Full view - About this book
 | John Leonard Knapp - 1831 - 330 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon, the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...discrimination. It is but simple justice to these often censured birds, to mention the service that they at times perform for us in our pasture lands.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leave* upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...it, and then drawing the larvae from their holes." A correspondent, in the Magazine of Natural History, proves that the rook is occasionally a predatory... | |
 | James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub, beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...supposed to scent matters with great discrimination *." Water-birds (Natatores, ILLIGER) might be supposed, from the considerabledevelopment of their nerves... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...the plant which concealed it, and then drawing the larvse from their holes. " A correspondent, in the Magazine of Natural History, proves that the rook... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp - 1838 - 490 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...from their holes. By what intimation this bird had dis-' covered its hidden food we are at a loss to conjecture ; but the rook has always been supposed... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...the rook into Virginia, but without success. Mr. Knapp, in his " Journal of a Naturalist," gays, *' It is but simple justice to these often-censured birds, to mention the service that they at times perform for us in our pasture-lands. There is no plant that I endeavoured to root out with more... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...often-censured birds, to mention the service that they at times perform for us in our pasture lands. There is no plant that I endeavour to root out with more... | |
 | John Leonard Knapp, Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 370 pages
...grub, leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had detected in their flight, and descended to feed on...the plant which concealed it, and then drawing the larva; from their holes. By what intimation this bird had discovered its hidden food we are at a loss... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 1254 pages
...congener, the ' villain crow,' becomes a wayfaring bird, and ' seeks a dole from every passing steed.' It is but simple justice to these often-censured birds to mention the service that they at times perform for us in our pasture lands. There is no plant that I endeavour to root out with more... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1856 - 368 pages
...leaving only a crown of leaves upon the surface. This grub beneath, in the earth, the rooks had deter.Uil in their flight, and descended to feed on it, first...it, and then drawing the larvae from their holes." A correspondent, in the Magazine of Natural History, proves that the rook is occasionally a predatory... | |
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