The black partridge is very noisy during the spring, which corresponds with its breeding season, and calls loud and incessantly in the morning, at midday, and sometimes even at night; the painted partridge has a pleasant chirping note; the chukar is another noisy bird; its call-note is fully described by Hume.

In unctuous cones of kindling coal, Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe’s trim bole, His [the poet’s] gifted ken can see Phantoms of sublimity.

Most Eastern Red Bats migrate south to avoid winter weather. But some red bats stick around. They keep from becoming batsicles by sleeping under dead leaves on the forest floor when temperatures fall below freezing.

… the wind freshen’d, and carryed our Maintop-mast by the board; in which disaster, the man that was lower-most, and least in danger, fell over-board, and was drowned;