The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects (1854)
Gould, Augustus A. (Augustus Addison), 1805-1866, Dwight, Jonathan, 1858-1929, former owner. DSI, Tucker, Marcia Brady, former owner. DSI · Boston : Phillips, Sampson, and Company · leaf 632
h one of those little clusters of pellets, or rolls of earth that are thrown out by the worm’s perforations, it first gently removes the mould from the mouth of the hole, then strikes the ground at the side with its foot, and attentively waits the issue; alarmed by che shock, the reptile emerges… … These birds make a great noise with their wings in flying, and are called peewits, or tewits, in the north of England, from their particular cry. They remain there the whole year. The female lays two eggs on the dry ground, near some marsh, upon a little bed which she prepares of dry grass. These…
Zoology
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