Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams. — Gilbert White
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person’s hand. — Gilbert White
Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. — Gilbert White
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. — Gilbert White
You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter. — Gilbert White