You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. Gilbert White Read Quote
Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. Gilbert White Read Quote
Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops. Gilbert White Read Quote
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. Gilbert White Read Quote
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. Gilbert White Read Quote
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand. Gilbert White Read Quote
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history. Gilbert White Read Quote
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district. Gilbert White Read Quote
