 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 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... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 pages
...part of its prey with its foot, &s 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 view of the case is not borne out by Atkinson, who, in his ' Compendium of the Ornithology of... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...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...which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. There is no bird whose manners I have studied more. It is a wonderful and curious creature. Though... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 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...Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, have 1 This is termed the tragus ; it is found in all our British bats except the greater and lesser horse-shoe... | |
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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,... 
