Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 2. köideCharles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1866 |
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... upper jaw composed of the intermaxillary bones in the middle , and the maxillaries at the sides , and by the body being always covered with scales . Some of the species ascend rivers . The genus Clupea , as now restricted by Cuvier ...
... upper jaw composed of the intermaxillary bones in the middle , and the maxillaries at the sides , and by the body being always covered with scales . Some of the species ascend rivers . The genus Clupea , as now restricted by Cuvier ...
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... upper , and provided with three or four prominent teeth just within the angle formed by the symphysis ; the superior maxillary bones have their edges slightly crenated ; the eye is large , in breadth full one - fourth of the length of ...
... upper , and provided with three or four prominent teeth just within the angle formed by the symphysis ; the superior maxillary bones have their edges slightly crenated ; the eye is large , in breadth full one - fourth of the length of ...
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... upper group of the formation of the Coal - Measures . Little patches of Mountain Limestone are found below them in one or two spots in the first and last named counties ; but usually the Coal - Measures rest directly and unconformably ...
... upper group of the formation of the Coal - Measures . Little patches of Mountain Limestone are found below them in one or two spots in the first and last named counties ; but usually the Coal - Measures rest directly and unconformably ...
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... upper , its cutting edges inflected , and shutting within those of the upper . Nostrils basal , lateral , oblique , oval , nearly hidden by the short feathers at the base of the beak . Wings long , rather powerful , the second and third ...
... upper , its cutting edges inflected , and shutting within those of the upper . Nostrils basal , lateral , oblique , oval , nearly hidden by the short feathers at the base of the beak . Wings long , rather powerful , the second and third ...
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... upper ones flattened in front and truncated obliquely , chisel - like ; the lower slightly compressed laterally , and rounded on the anterior face . But these incisors , though of some strength , are small when compared to those of the ...
... upper ones flattened in front and truncated obliquely , chisel - like ; the lower slightly compressed laterally , and rounded on the anterior face . But these incisors , though of some strength , are small when compared to those of the ...
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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.