these last sounds seem intended for menace and 

 defiance. 



The grass- 

 hopper - lark 

 chirps all night 

 in the height 

 of summer. 



Swans turn 

 white the sec- 

 ond year, and 

 breed the third. 

 Weasels prey 

 on moles, as ap- 

 pears by their 

 being some- 

 times caught in 

 mole-traps. 



Sparrow hawks sometimes breed in old crows' 

 nests, and the kestril in churches and ruins. 



There are supposed to be two sorts of eels in the 

 island of Ely. The threads sometimes discovered in 

 eels are perhaps their young : the generation of eels 

 is very dark and mysterious. 



Hen-harriers breed on the ground, and seem 

 never to settle on trees. 



[Of this bold bird White afterwards writes in his 

 " Observations : " — ''A gentleman flushed a pheasant 

 in a wheat stubble, and shot at it; when, notwith- 

 standing the report of the gun, it was immediately 



A nightingale. 



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