Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, 6. köideWest, Newman, 1848 |
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Page 1954
... , Northumberland , 2066 ; spot- ted , in Yorkshire , 2147 ; wood , near Yarmouth , 2185 ; near Bootle , 2303 Scoter , velvet , in Suffolk , 2067 ; common , 2067 ; surf , in Shetland , 2067 Scoters , velvet and common , on Winder- mere , ...
... , Northumberland , 2066 ; spot- ted , in Yorkshire , 2147 ; wood , near Yarmouth , 2185 ; near Bootle , 2303 Scoter , velvet , in Suffolk , 2067 ; common , 2067 ; surf , in Shetland , 2067 Scoters , velvet and common , on Winder- mere , ...
Page 1962
... spot before me , I altered my tactics . The birds , when flushed , would doubtless come down the river ; down therefore squatted among the canes close on the river's brink , my friend , dog , and self , to await their approach . On came ...
... spot before me , I altered my tactics . The birds , when flushed , would doubtless come down the river ; down therefore squatted among the canes close on the river's brink , my friend , dog , and self , to await their approach . On came ...
Page 1964
... spot it sprung from . Not so the Spaniard , ( though , be it remembered , he is no Spaniard by birth , but has come southward in November ) ; no ; up he gets , some thirty or forty yards from you , and down he is again only some hundred ...
... spot it sprung from . Not so the Spaniard , ( though , be it remembered , he is no Spaniard by birth , but has come southward in November ) ; no ; up he gets , some thirty or forty yards from you , and down he is again only some hundred ...
Page 1967
... spots on the breast ; from Turdus torquatus , Linn . , T. merula , Linn . , T. atrogularis , Temm . , T. Naumannii , Temm . , T. Sibiricus , Pall . , T. solitarius , Swain . , and T. aureus , Hol . , by the general colour of the plumage ...
... spots on the breast ; from Turdus torquatus , Linn . , T. merula , Linn . , T. atrogularis , Temm . , T. Naumannii , Temm . , T. Sibiricus , Pall . , T. solitarius , Swain . , and T. aureus , Hol . , by the general colour of the plumage ...
Page 1973
... spot . Small Spotted Dog , Scyllium canicula . Frequently called " rough , " or " row - hound . " Most frequent on the southern shores . < 6 Larger Spotted Dog , S. catulus . Common . Commonly called nurse - hound . " Frequents deep ...
... spot . Small Spotted Dog , Scyllium canicula . Frequently called " rough , " or " row - hound . " Most frequent on the southern shores . < 6 Larger Spotted Dog , S. catulus . Common . Commonly called nurse - hound . " Frequents deep ...
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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...