Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, 6. köideWest, Newman, 1848 |
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Page 1929
... third sheet without any extra charge ; and if 500 subscribers could be added , I should constantly publish four sheets instead of two for a shilling . The idea of obtaining such an addition to the number of purchasers is anything rather ...
... third sheet without any extra charge ; and if 500 subscribers could be added , I should constantly publish four sheets instead of two for a shilling . The idea of obtaining such an addition to the number of purchasers is anything rather ...
Page 1931
... third addition to our birds is the American White - winged Crossbill ( Loxia leucoptera ) , a single specimen of which has occurred in Dorsetshire ( Zool . 2300 ) , the bird previously known by this name being the Two - barred Crossbill ...
... third addition to our birds is the American White - winged Crossbill ( Loxia leucoptera ) , a single specimen of which has occurred in Dorsetshire ( Zool . 2300 ) , the bird previously known by this name being the Two - barred Crossbill ...
Page 1961
... third week in April ; and the birds had not then commenced building , though they abounded in the vicinity . Indeed I am not sure that the females had arrived , as all the specimens I obtained proved to be males . The Alpine Swift ...
... third week in April ; and the birds had not then commenced building , though they abounded in the vicinity . Indeed I am not sure that the females had arrived , as all the specimens I obtained proved to be males . The Alpine Swift ...
Page 1967
... third is the longest ; the fifth is much shorter than the fourth ; the sixth is much shorter than the fifth . The size of its body does not appear to be more than half that of Turdus musicus when they are laid side by side , and the ...
... third is the longest ; the fifth is much shorter than the fourth ; the sixth is much shorter than the fifth . The size of its body does not appear to be more than half that of Turdus musicus when they are laid side by side , and the ...
Page 1981
... third of its length from the body this ridge begins to be bordered , as with a narrow fin , that seems to decrease again as it proceeds . This caudal portion has also a ridge beneath , which begins close to the vent ; and on both sides ...
... third of its length from the body this ridge begins to be bordered , as with a narrow fin , that seems to decrease again as it proceeds . This caudal portion has also a ridge beneath , which begins close to the vent ; and on both sides ...
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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...