Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.
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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.Gilbert White
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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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.
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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 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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