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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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.Gilbert White
The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.
Gilbert White
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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You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.
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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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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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