"Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields." — Gilbert White

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

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Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.