 When it has young, it will bring a mouse to the nest about every twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which this bird destroys, we must examine the pellets which it ejects from its stomach in the...  British Birds in Their Haunts - Page 53by Charles Alexander Johns - 1862 - 626 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...us what the ibis was with the Egyptians. When it has young, it will bring a mouse to the nest about every twelve or fifteen minutes. But, in order to...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time that the apartment of the owl on the old gateway was cleaned out, there... | |
 | Johann Matthäus Bechstein - Birds - 1856 - 598 pages
...twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which it destroys, we must examine the pellets which it ejects...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time when the apartment of the Owl in the old gateway was cleaned out, there... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1856 - 194 pages
...twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which the bird destroys, we must examine the pellets which it ejects from its stomach. Every pellet contains from four to seven skins of mice. In sixteen months the pellets found in an old... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...But, in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which this bird destroys, we mu^t examine the pellets which it ejects from its stomach...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time that the apartment of the owl on the old gateway was cleaned out, there... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which it destroys, we must examine the pellets which it ejects...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time when the apartment of the owl in the old gateway was cleaned out there... | |
 | Henry Stevenson - 1866 - 542 pages
...has young," says Mr. Waterton from personal observation, " It will bring a mouse to its nest about every twelve or fifteen minutes ; but, in order to...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months, from the time that the apartment of the owls on the old gateway was cleaned out,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1872 - 758 pages
...twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order to have a proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which it destroys, we must examine the pellets which it ejects...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time when the apartment of the owl in the old gateway was cleaned out there... | |
 | John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
...When it has young it will bring a mouse to the nest every twelve or fifteen minutes during the night. But, in order to have a proper idea of the enormous...mice which this bird destroys, we must examine the pelleta wluch it ejects from its stmnaeh in the place of its retreat. Ever* 1oo Scent of the Raven.... | |
 | Jeanie M. Laing - Folklore - 1885 - 120 pages
...has young, it will bring a mouse to the nest every ten or fifteen minutes. But in order to have the proper idea of the enormous quantity of mice which...pellets which it ejects from its stomach in the place of it sretreat. Every pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months there has... | |
 | John Watson - Beneficial birds - 1893 - 268 pages
...agricultural economy, he has the following note : — " When it has young it will bring a mouse to its nest every twelve or fifteen minutes. But in order...pellet contains from four to seven skeletons of mice. In sixteen months from the time that the apartment of the owl on the old gateway was cleaned out, there... | |
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