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Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Gilbert White

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

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We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

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It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

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Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

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I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

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I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

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The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

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