 | Linnean Society of London - 1825 - 666 pages
...of the head, deliver somewhat into its mouth. If it takes any part of its prey with its foot, as 1 have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these...which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." Nat. Hist . of Selborne, Letter 37. p. 94. Mr. Wilson, another accurate observer of Nature, assigns... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 422 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated clawf." Mr. Dillon has recently argued with considerable plausibility against this conjecture of White's,... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1831 - 690 pages
...foot, as I have the greatest reason to believe it does chafers, (Zantheumia solstifialis, LEACH, us.,) I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw*.' Mr. Dillon has recently controverted this opinion ; his observations leading him to suppose that the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 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 22d, they rendezvoused in a neighbor's walnut tree, where it seemed probable they had taken up their... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 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...which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw.* These peculiar birds can only be watched and observed for two hours in the twenty-four, and then in... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 280 pages
...part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chaffers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." This last opinion of White's has been much controverted: some have supposed that the movement of the... | |
 | S. Waring - 1832 - 284 pages
...part of its prey with its foot, as I have now the greatest reason to suppose it does these chaffers, I no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." This last opinion of White's has been much controverted: some have supposed that the movement of the... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 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...claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, * We find the following additional information regarding the goat-sucker, in Mr. White's Miscellaneous... | |
 | James Rennie - 1833 - 406 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated clawf." Mr. Dillon has recently argued with considerable plausibility against this conjecture of White's,... | |
 | 1840 - 506 pages
...any part of its prey with its foot, as I have now great reason to suppose it does these chafers, 1 no longer wonder at the use of its middle toe, which is curiously furnished, with a serrated claw." Mr. Vigors (loc. oil.) remarks that the common Barn Owl (Slrix fummea) possesses the same character... | |
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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,... 
