 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 trang
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of birds 1 By Reguli non cristati are intended the three species of " willowwrens," as they are generally called,... | |
 | William A. Campbell - 1890 - 514 trang
...which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its Avings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The cleverness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
 | 1888 - 882 trang
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...and hiding its head in the manner of birds of prey * This little uncalled-for insult is the writer's, not mine. when they feed. The adroitness it showed... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 556 trang
...within range of the bats' wings, it was sure to be struck down by their action, the it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the mannei cf birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed m shearing off the wings of the flies,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 trang
...last summer with a tame bat, which would take flics out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to cat, it brought its wings round before the mouth,...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 trang
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of birds 1 By Reguli non cristati are intended the three species of " willowwrens," as they are generally called,... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 trang
...he saw, which would take flies out of a person's hand. " If you gave it anything to eat," he says, "it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, pleased me... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 266 trang
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1897 - 592 trang
...person's hand. If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wiugs round before the mouth, hoverinj: and hiding its head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | GILBERT WHITE - 1900 - 552 trang
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
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If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. 
