 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you guve it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it shewed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 328 pages
...amused with a tame bat. " It would take flies from a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth ; hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness with which it sheared off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | 1837 - 1040 pages
...feeding of a tame bat : ' It would take flies out of a person's hand; if you jiave it anything to eat it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | 1837
...feeding of a tame bat : 'It would take flies out of a person's hand; if you yave it anything to eat it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the winsjs of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed 1". The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed 1-. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was... | |
 | 1837 - 1822 pages
...feeding of a tame bat: 'It would take (lies out of a person's hand; if you gave it anything to eat it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head, in the manner of birds of pivy when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing o(T the wings of flies, which were al.vays... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...flies out of a person's hand ; if you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before its mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of flies, which were always rejected, was worthy of... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. If you gave it any thing to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering...in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. The adroitness it showed in shearing off the wings of the flies, which were always rejected, was worthy... | |
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If you gave it anything to eat, it brought its wings round before the mouth, hovering and hiding its head in the manner of birds of prey when they feed. 
