Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Volume 31829 |
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... continue in this agitated state , and her whole brood pinned down as it were to the ground , for four hours together ; whilst their formidable foe has taken his circuits , has mounted , and hovered di- rectly over their heads : at last ...
... continue in this agitated state , and her whole brood pinned down as it were to the ground , for four hours together ; whilst their formidable foe has taken his circuits , has mounted , and hovered di- rectly over their heads : at last ...
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... continues , from the beginning , about a minute ; the bird ceases for six or eight mi- nutes , and then begins again . The sound is often heard at the distance of nearly half a mile ; and sports- men take advantage of this note , to ...
... continues , from the beginning , about a minute ; the bird ceases for six or eight mi- nutes , and then begins again . The sound is often heard at the distance of nearly half a mile ; and sports- men take advantage of this note , to ...
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... continues for whole days about the same spot , and seems to look for safety only in privacy and inaction . In the autumn it changes its abode , always com- mencing its journey or change of place at sunset . Its precautions for ...
... continues for whole days about the same spot , and seems to look for safety only in privacy and inaction . In the autumn it changes its abode , always com- mencing its journey or change of place at sunset . Its precautions for ...
Page 78
... continuing all May and June , when they become very fat , and are much esteemed for the table . They are found in toler- able plenty in Cambridgeshire , Lincolnshire , and Der- byshire ; but in other parts of the kingdom they are ...
... continuing all May and June , when they become very fat , and are much esteemed for the table . They are found in toler- able plenty in Cambridgeshire , Lincolnshire , and Der- byshire ; but in other parts of the kingdom they are ...
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... continue there till March , when they return northward to breed . A few continue in Mainland , one of the Orkneys , and breed in the little islands of the fresh - water lochs ; but the principal part of them retire at the approach of ...
... continue there till March , when they return northward to breed . A few continue in Mainland , one of the Orkneys , and breed in the little islands of the fresh - water lochs ; but the principal part of them retire at the approach of ...
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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
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 282 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.