The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of LondonLongman, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1867 |
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... Collection of the British Museum . ( Plates XXIV . & XXV . ) 394 Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges , with the Descrip- tions of some New Genera . ( Plates XXVII . & XXVIII . ) 492 Page Note on a New Species or Variety of Lemur vii.
... Collection of the British Museum . ( Plates XXIV . & XXV . ) 394 Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges , with the Descrip- tions of some New Genera . ( Plates XXVII . & XXVIII . ) 492 Page Note on a New Species or Variety of Lemur vii.
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... Collection 726 .... Additional Observations on the Species of Cats ( Felidae ) in the British Museum 874 Notice of a New Species of American Tapir , with Obser- vations on the Skulls of Tapirus , Rhinochorus , and Elasmo- gnathus in the ...
... Collection 726 .... Additional Observations on the Species of Cats ( Felidae ) in the British Museum 874 Notice of a New Species of American Tapir , with Obser- vations on the Skulls of Tapirus , Rhinochorus , and Elasmo- gnathus in the ...
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Zoological Society of London. Page On a Collection of Birds from some less - known Localities in the Western Pacific . ( Plate XXXVIII . ) 828 HECTOR , Dr. , F.R.S. Notice of an Egg of the Great Moa ( Dinornis gigantea ) containing ...
Zoological Society of London. Page On a Collection of Birds from some less - known Localities in the Western Pacific . ( Plate XXXVIII . ) 828 HECTOR , Dr. , F.R.S. Notice of an Egg of the Great Moa ( Dinornis gigantea ) containing ...
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... collection of Animals from Cal- cutta 820 Notices of Additions to the Menagerie . 890 Notice of the Exhibition of a ... collected on the Blew fields River , Mosquito Coast , by Mr. Henry Wickham 278 List of Birds collected by Mr. Wallace ...
... collection of Animals from Cal- cutta 820 Notices of Additions to the Menagerie . 890 Notice of the Exhibition of a ... collected on the Blew fields River , Mosquito Coast , by Mr. Henry Wickham 278 List of Birds collected by Mr. Wallace ...
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... ( collected by M. Botteri near Orizaba ) for several years without being able to identify it satisfactorily . M. Boucard's recent collections having contained excellently prepared examples , I have been enabled to make a better ...
... ( collected by M. Botteri near Orizaba ) for several years without being able to identify it satisfactorily . M. Boucard's recent collections having contained excellently prepared examples , I have been enabled to make a better ...
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A. E. Russell abdomen anal angle animal apex apical band basal base basipterygoid Bengal bird blackish body bone border Bowerb British Museum broad brown Capim River caudal caudal fin cilia cinereous Coll colour Conch costa Darjeeling diameter discal spot dorsal dorsal fin edge elongated Expanse 1 inch exterior margin Fayal Felis female ferruginous fibres fore wing fusiform genera Genus Gray Guen head hind wing Hyalonema inner Linn Male maxillo-palatines middle Moore muscle narrow nearly oblique orbit outer palatine palatine bones pale pectoral Plate platyrhinus Port Jackson Santa Fé Santiago de Veragua Schmidt Sclater shell short side Silhet skeleton skull slender slightly snout species specimens spicules spiculum spine sponge sternum streak submarginal surface tail thorax tibiæ trachea transverse Underside upper ventral vertebræ vomer W. S. Atkinson Walk Watson's Bay whorls wombat yellow Zool
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Page 416 - The posterior ends of the palatines and the anterior ends of the pterygoids are very imperfectly, or not at all, articulated with the basisphenoidal rostrum, being usually separated from it, and supported by the broad, cleft, hinder end of the vomer.
Page 426 - Passeres, relates to the palatal structure exhibited by a raven (fig. 79), as typical of that of Passeres at large. The vomer is a broad bone, truncate in front and deeply cleft behind, embracing the sphenoidal rostrum in its forks. The palatines have produced postero-external angles. The maxillo-palatines are slender at their origin, extending inwards and backwards over the palatines and under the vomer, where they end free, being united neither with each other nor with the vomer. This disconnection...
Page 655 - The skin, hung up by the nose, measured 10 feet 2 inches, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for seven shillings and sixpence in the common course of business.
Page 541 - Museum we read that it is much in request both among the natives and the colonists, and that the epicures of Cape Town do not disdain to use their influence with the country farmers to obtain a preference in the matter of Sea-Cow's Speck, as the fat which lies immediately under the skin is called when salted and dried.
Page 404 - ... the maxillo-palatines are united across the median line, either directly or by means of ossifications in the nasal septum ; the posterior ends of the palatines and the anterior ends of the pterygoids articulate directly with the rostrum (as in schizoguathism).
Page 112 - The foregoing results show that, contrary to the expectation when the research was commenced, the fluorine is present in much larger proportion than phosphoric acid. The silica exists in the coral in its soluble modification, and probably is united to the lime. The free magnesia existed as carbonate, and was thrown down as caustic magnesia by the lime-water.
Page iv - A List of Species of Marine Mollusca found in Port Jackson Harbour, New South Wales, and on the adjacent Coasts, with Notes on their Habits, etc. Part. I.
Page 433 - ... so completely intermediate between the anserine birds on the one side, and the storks and herons on the other, that it can be ranged with neither of these groups, but must stand as the type of a division by itself.
Page 408 - The scapula has no acromial process, nor has the coracoid any clavicular process ; at most there are inconspicuous tubercles representing these processes. 3. The posterior ends of the palatines and the anterior ends of the pterygoids are very imperfectly, or not at all, articulated...
Page 404 - The caudal vertebrae are both numerous and large, so that the caudal region of the spine is longer than the body, whereas in all other birds it is shorter than the body.