I make no doubt but there are three species of the willow-wrens two I know perfectly but have not been able yet to procure the third.
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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.Gilbert White
Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.
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The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
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As the population in this region continues to grow and economic development increases, these countries must work together to ensure that ecosystems are preserved and adequate water supplies sustained.
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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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