Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 2. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1866 |
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... spines , one before each eye . From this character and some other differences of minor importance , this fish , and several others having the same structure , have been separated from the true loaches , and now con- stitute the genus ...
... spines , one before each eye . From this character and some other differences of minor importance , this fish , and several others having the same structure , have been separated from the true loaches , and now con- stitute the genus ...
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... spines called the calcaria ( f , figs . 27 and 28 ) . As regards the classification of the Coleoptera , as well as of insects in general , in almost every work which treats of the subject , a new We shall content ourselves however with ...
... spines called the calcaria ( f , figs . 27 and 28 ) . As regards the classification of the Coleoptera , as well as of insects in general , in almost every work which treats of the subject , a new We shall content ourselves however with ...
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... spine and loins , and serves as a medium for the passage of nerves and vessels , and the lodgment of absorbent glands . Between the peritoneal coat and the interior mucous lining there is a layer of muscular fibres , some of which ...
... spine and loins , and serves as a medium for the passage of nerves and vessels , and the lodgment of absorbent glands . Between the peritoneal coat and the interior mucous lining there is a layer of muscular fibres , some of which ...
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... spine . Thorax almost quadrate , slightly convex above , with a scapula on each side ; scutellum small , semicircular . Wings lanceolate , finely pubescent , incumbent , and parallel in repose , pr¿brachial vein united with the cubital ...
... spine . Thorax almost quadrate , slightly convex above , with a scapula on each side ; scutellum small , semicircular . Wings lanceolate , finely pubescent , incumbent , and parallel in repose , pr¿brachial vein united with the cubital ...
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... spines at its edge . Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound , issuing in the month of February from the apex of the tree and centre of the leaves , forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or more feet in height . The ...
... spines at its edge . Roxburgh describes the spadix as decompound , issuing in the month of February from the apex of the tree and centre of the leaves , forming an immense diffuse ovate panicle of about 20 or more feet in height . The ...
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Page 85 - The ground was strewed with broken limbs of trees, eggs, and young squab pigeons, which had been precipitated from above, and on which herds of hogs were fattening. Hawks, buzzards, and eagles, were sailing about in great numbers, and seizing the squabs from...
Page 85 - I was astonished at their appearance. They were flying with great steadiness and rapidity, at a height beyond gunshot, in several strata deep, and so close together, that, could shot have reached them, one discharge could not have failed of bringing down several individuals.
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Page 469 - ... gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.
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Page 591 - It certainly would do so, if, immediately after drinking his fill, ho were galloped hard, but not if he were suffered to quench his thirst more frequently when at rest in the stable. The horse that has free access to water will not drink so much in the course of a day as another who, to cool his parched mouth, swallows as fast as he can, and knows not when to stop.
Page 85 - ... to fell them in such a manner, that, in their descent, they might bring down several others ; by which means the falling of one large tree sometimes produced two hundred squabs, little inferior in size to the old ones, and almost one mass of fat.