 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 348 pages
...falling out." deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ; for on Sept. the 22d they rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...falling out." ; deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ; for on Sept. the 22d they rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers, I no longer wonder at the use teats of goats, whence it is called caprirmdgm ; and with us, of communicating a deadly disorder to... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...bend of the head, deliver something into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with serrated claws." " Much has been said and written respecting the pectinated claw on the middle toe... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. It' it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw;" Amidst such conflicting testimonies most will be ready to praise the philosophical hesitation of Audobon,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1850 - 458 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...sooner this year than usual ; for, on September the twentysecond, they rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1853 - 386 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...sooner this year than usual ; for on September the twenty-second, they rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken... | |
 | Treasury - 1854 - 278 pages
...of its head, deliver something into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." Audubon, with philosophical hesitation, says, " I wish I could have discovered the peculiar use of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished wiih a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them, I mean, have forsaken us sooner this... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1860 - 356 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ; for on Sept. the 22d, they rendezvoused in a neighbour's walnut-tree, where it seemed probable they had taken... | |
| |
I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chafers,... 
