Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Том 31829 |
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... fins , and are covered with feathers no longer than those of the rest of the body . The body is clothed with thick , short feathers ; which have broad shafts , and are placed almost as compactly as scales . The legs are short and thick ...
... fins , and are covered with feathers no longer than those of the rest of the body . The body is clothed with thick , short feathers ; which have broad shafts , and are placed almost as compactly as scales . The legs are short and thick ...
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... fin - shaped feet , in which are enclosed the bones of the toes ; the first and second only of each foot having visible or projecting claws . Of these animals , there are , in the whole , about thirty- six species : four marine ...
... fin - shaped feet , in which are enclosed the bones of the toes ; the first and second only of each foot having visible or projecting claws . Of these animals , there are , in the whole , about thirty- six species : four marine ...
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... fins , as to afford them little service except in swimming . These animals are indeed seldom found on shore at any other than their breeding time , about the month of April ; when the females leave the water , from time to time , in ...
... fins , as to afford them little service except in swimming . These animals are indeed seldom found on shore at any other than their breeding time , about the month of April ; when the females leave the water , from time to time , in ...
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... fins on each side of the neck , which always drop off as soon as the ani- mals become perfect . THE WATER EFT , OR NEWT * . To the Salamander has been attributed the fabulous property of being able to live in the midst of fire ; whilst ...
... fins on each side of the neck , which always drop off as soon as the ani- mals become perfect . THE WATER EFT , OR NEWT * . To the Salamander has been attributed the fabulous property of being able to live in the midst of fire ; whilst ...
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... fins . These appear not much unlike fea- thers , and are attached to a kind of notched cartilagi- nous half rings , usually about four on each side . As the animals become larger , these processes diminish in size , and at last ...
... fins . These appear not much unlike fea- thers , and are attached to a kind of notched cartilagi- nous half rings , usually about four on each side . As the animals become larger , these processes diminish in size , and at last ...
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afterwards anal fins animals appear bait belly bill birds Bittern body breed Brit brown Cassowary catch caught coasts colour common Common Pheasant covered Crocodile deposit DESCRIPTION devour distance dorsal fin Ducks Edible Frog eggs Electrical Eel eyes feathers feed feet female fins fish flesh flocks four frequently Frog goose Greek Tortoise ground hatched head hundred inches inhabitants insects islands jaws killed Lapwing legs length Linn.-Le Linnæus Lizard male mandible months mouth nearly neck nest Ostrich oviparous Partridge pectoral fins Pelecan Pheasant Plate plumage pond pounds prey rivers season seen seize seldom Shark shell shoals shore side skin slender snake sometimes soon spawn species spots spring surface swallow swim SYNONYMS tail taken thick Toad toes trees tribe Turtles upper usually voracious weight WHITE STORK whole wings winter worms young young-ones Zool
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Страница 46 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
Страница 282 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth...
Страница 96 - ... as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill ; in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
Страница 166 - WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and...
Страница 96 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace, or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea...
Страница 51 - Most people have, one time or other, seen a partridge run, and consequently must know that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably augmented. The ostrich...
Страница 141 - March last, when it was enough awakened to express its resentments by hissing; and, packing it in a box with earth, carried it eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Страница 219 - The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate each other.
Страница 315 - THE electric organs of the torpedo are placed on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching from thence to the semicircular cartilages of each great fin, and extending longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal to the transverse cartilage, which divides the thorax from the abdomen...
Страница 276 - I spake to you formerly, that keeps tame Otters, that he hath known a Pike in extreme hunger, fight with one of his Otters for a Carp that the Otter had caught, and was then bringing out of the water.