Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, 6. köideWest, Newman, 1848 |
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Page 1931
... middle of September had collected in small flocks of from ten to thirty , was mistaken for the fieldfare : in this view of the subject I am supported by Mr. Henry Doubleday , and I know of no ornithologist . whose opinion is entitled to ...
... middle of September had collected in small flocks of from ten to thirty , was mistaken for the fieldfare : in this view of the subject I am supported by Mr. Henry Doubleday , and I know of no ornithologist . whose opinion is entitled to ...
Page 1949
... middle tail - feather white , 2303 WOLLEY , JOHN Griffon vulture - correction of a pre- vious error , 2063 ; Long captivity of a specimen of the little owl , 2141 ; Description of a species of newt , 2149 ; Narrow - bordered bee Sphinx ...
... middle tail - feather white , 2303 WOLLEY , JOHN Griffon vulture - correction of a pre- vious error , 2063 ; Long captivity of a specimen of the little owl , 2141 ; Description of a species of newt , 2149 ; Narrow - bordered bee Sphinx ...
Page 1957
... middle of the body , proceeding from the white of the belly , and nearly meet- ing on the back . The tail has also , towards the tip , a band of the same colour , two inches in breadth , which , when the tail is arched over the back is ...
... middle of the body , proceeding from the white of the belly , and nearly meet- ing on the back . The tail has also , towards the tip , a band of the same colour , two inches in breadth , which , when the tail is arched over the back is ...
Page 1960
... middle of February . The Fire - crested Regulus ( Regulus ignicapillus ) I saw once on an olive tree near Seville . I was sufficiently near to distinguish it plainly from its congener , the gold- crest , which I did not see in Spain ...
... middle of February . The Fire - crested Regulus ( Regulus ignicapillus ) I saw once on an olive tree near Seville . I was sufficiently near to distinguish it plainly from its congener , the gold- crest , which I did not see in Spain ...
Page 1966
... middle of the month a gray lag goose ( male ) was also killed at Horsea , being the first Norfolk specimen of that species which has come under our notice in a recent state . And about the same time an immature glaucous gull occurred at ...
... middle of the month a gray lag goose ( male ) was also killed at Horsea , being the first Norfolk specimen of that species which has come under our notice in a recent state . And about the same time an immature glaucous gull occurred at ...
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Abdomen abundant anal angle animal antennæ apex APHIS apical appearance April Argyromiges August basal base Battel beneath bird black-throated diver body breeding British brown captured cilia colour common costal spot dark Duponchel eggs extremity eyes fascia feet ferruginous fish flying frequently fuscous genus glaucous gull gray green ground gull habits HALICTUS Haworth head inches inner margin insect July June Kilda Kirby larvæ legs length Lepidoptera lines Lithocolletis Loch male Melitta metathorax middle naturalists nearly neighbourhood nervures nest nigro-piceous North Uist Northfleet observed Occurrence October pair pale fulvous pale yellow paler Palpi piceous plumage Posterior wings pubescence punctured rare red-throated diver remarkable resembles ring ouzel sea-serpent seen segments September shining shot side species specimens streak summer Swanscombe tail taken tarsi tegulæ Thorax tibiæ tree viviparous viviparous female white pubescence winter Wood young Zeller Zool Zoologist
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Page 1928 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 2318 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 2313 - ... a dark brown with yellowish white about the throat. It had no fins, but something like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch of seaweed, washed about its back.
Page 2307 - Daedalus, under my command, on her passage from the East Indies, I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock PM on the 6th of August last, in latitude 24° 44...
Page 2315 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 2064 - Swallows certainly sleep all the winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lie in the bed of a river.
Page 2261 - ... stomack : greasie appetites may perhaps commend them, but to the indifferently curious, nourishment, but prove offensive. Let's take her picture : her visage darts forth melancholy, as sensible of Nature's injurie in framing so great and massie a body to be directed by such small and...
Page 2312 - ... and yet the closest inspection of as much of the body as was visible, d fleur d'eau, failed to detect any undulations of the body, although such actions constitute the very character which would distinguish a serpent or serpentiform swimmer from any other marine species. The foregone conclusion, therefore, of the beast's being a sea-serpent, notwithstanding its capacious vaulted cranium, and stiff, inflexible trunk, must be kept in mind in estimating the value of the approximation made to the...
Page 2049 - Cumanenses." as the worthy Lopez de Gomara voucheth, " hath the face of a man, the beard of a goat, and a staid behaviour," such, in short, as may well beseem the possessor of such a "powerful organ," as the newspaper critics have it. We will endeavour, with Humboldt's assistance, to convey to the reader some idea of the structure of this sonorous instrument. That most observing traveller states that the bony case of the...
Page 2261 - ... hooded with downy blackish feathers ; the other, perfectly naked ; of a whitish hue, as if a transparent lawne had covered it : her bill is very howked and bends downwards, the thrill or breathing place is in the midst...