A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... approach . They chiefly keep near the most de- serted and inhospitable shores ; near salt water lakes and swampy islands . When seen by mariners in the day , they always appear drawn up in a long close line of two or three hundred ...
... approach . They chiefly keep near the most de- serted and inhospitable shores ; near salt water lakes and swampy islands . When seen by mariners in the day , they always appear drawn up in a long close line of two or three hundred ...
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... approaches , the Puffin catches him under the throat with its beak , and sticks its claws into its breast , which makes the raven , with a loud screaming , attempt to get away ; but the little bird still holds fast to the invader , nor ...
... approaches , the Puffin catches him under the throat with its beak , and sticks its claws into its breast , which makes the raven , with a loud screaming , attempt to get away ; but the little bird still holds fast to the invader , nor ...
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... approaches very near the boats when fish- ing for sprats or herrings . The BLACK - THROATED DIVER has the fore part of the ter at Chesapeake Bay . In the summer , they retire to the fresh water lakes , and they are reported to breed in ...
... approaches very near the boats when fish- ing for sprats or herrings . The BLACK - THROATED DIVER has the fore part of the ter at Chesapeake Bay . In the summer , they retire to the fresh water lakes , and they are reported to breed in ...
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... approach the edge of that impending height , and to look down on the unfathomable vacuity below ! To pon- der on the terrors of falling to the bottom , where the waves , that swell like mountains , are scarcely seen to curl on the ...
... approach the edge of that impending height , and to look down on the unfathomable vacuity below ! To pon- der on the terrors of falling to the bottom , where the waves , that swell like mountains , are scarcely seen to curl on the ...
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... approach the old ones , when their lit- tle family are feeding around them . Their fears as well as their pride seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old birds carry off the young ones on their back . A female has been known ...
... approach the old ones , when their lit- tle family are feeding around them . Their fears as well as their pride seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old birds carry off the young ones on their back . A female has been known ...
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Alligator anal fins animal appears ash colour back fin bait belly bill bird boat body bones bottom brown called claws coasts common covered CRAB creature Crocodile danger deep devour dorsal fin DUCK dusky Eels eggs EIDER DUCK England eyes feathers feed feet long female fish fishermen flesh Frog furnished genus gills goose Greenland grows GULL head hundred inches in length inches long inhabitants kind known lakes lateral line legs lizard mackerel manner motion mouth MULTIVALVE neck pectoral fins placed plumage pounds pounds weight prey quadrupeds rays resembles rivers round scales season seen seize seldom Serpent Shark shell shoals shore side silvery skin slender snail Snake sometimes spawn species spermaceti spines spots surface swimming tail taken teeth thick Toad Tortoise tribe upper venomous ventral ventral fins Viper viviparous weighs whale whole wings wound yellow young