The Quarterly Review, Volume 290William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1952 |
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Page 490
... owls and told gruesome stories of their efficiency when dealing with hapless sparrows sacri- ficed to their carnivorous appetite . After all , what deadlier enemy to garden birds could the imagination devise than a barn owl which ...
... owls and told gruesome stories of their efficiency when dealing with hapless sparrows sacri- ficed to their carnivorous appetite . After all , what deadlier enemy to garden birds could the imagination devise than a barn owl which ...
Page 492
... owl of convention is very much of a myth . and even in rhyme the other side of his character has some- times been portrayed as . for example , the two wicked owls ' who supped at The ... barn owls of his district took to 492 BRITISH OWLS.
... owl of convention is very much of a myth . and even in rhyme the other side of his character has some- times been portrayed as . for example , the two wicked owls ' who supped at The ... barn owls of his district took to 492 BRITISH OWLS.
Page 495
... barn owl . They were the sons of a farmer in whose loft the owls bred , and interference with the nest had been strictly forbidden . For that reason , needless to say , the white eggs became veritable apples of Eden and a surreptitious ...
... barn owl . They were the sons of a farmer in whose loft the owls bred , and interference with the nest had been strictly forbidden . For that reason , needless to say , the white eggs became veritable apples of Eden and a surreptitious ...
Contents
JANUARY 1952 | 1 |
Trieste Italys Touchstone | 2 |
Manysided Insurance | 3 |
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