...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, have forsaken us sooner this year than usual ;...

...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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw." Nat. Hist . of Selborne, Letter 37. p. 94. Mr. Wilson, another accurate observer of Nature,...

...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...

...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, 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...

...by the bill, in the manner of owls when disturbed.— WJ more than once put out its short leg while on the wing, and, by a bend of the head, deliver somewhat...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them, I mean, have forsaken us sooner this year than usual...

...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...

...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...

...European night-jar were designed to enable it to secure beetles (Zantheumia solxtitialis, &c.), oh which he observed it preying. " The circumstance,"...(Vibrissce). For this purpose, he thinks the entire tnechanism of the leg, foot, toe, and claw, adapted with wonderful precision; while for the seizing...

...pleased me most was, that I saw it distinctly, more than once, put out its short leg when on the wifig, and, by a bend of the head, deliver Somewhat into...considering the chief use of the serrated claw to be thecombing or dresslngthe bristles (Vibrissa). For this purpose, he thinks the entire mechanism of...

...circumstance that pleased me most was, that 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...toe, which is curiously furnished with a serrated claw. Swallows and martins, the bulk of them I mean, * We find the following additional information...