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1767年8月4日,在英国汉普郡的乡村塞耳彭,教区牧师吉尔伯特·怀特在给朋友的信中说:“(捕蝇鸟)有个特点似无人留意到,那就是:它总站在一根竿子顶上,一见蚊虫,则飞身而下,将沾地与不沾地之间,蚊虫即进了嘴,然后又耸身回到竿顶上……”怀特对于鹟(英语叫flycatcher,即捕蝇鸟)这类小鸟捕食习性的描述,可谓传神。怀特以《塞耳彭自然史》一书流芳后世,有人将他称为
On August 4, 1767, in the village of Helperton, Hampshire, England, parish priest Gilbert White, in a letter to a friend, said: “One of the characteristics of Flycatcher is that nobody noticed that It is: it always stood on the top of a pole, a see mosquito, then fly down, will dip and non-stick between the ground, the mosquito enters the mouth, and then rose back to the top of the pole ...... ”White For 鹟 (English called flycatcher, that is, fly-hunting birds) such bird habits description can be described as vivid. White described it after his book The Natural History of Selpiru