A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... covered at the base with short velvet - like feathers . The upper parts of the plum- age are black , and the lower parts white , with a spot of * This singular species are seen on the southern frontiers of the U. States , and on the ...
... covered at the base with short velvet - like feathers . The upper parts of the plum- age are black , and the lower parts white , with a spot of * This singular species are seen on the southern frontiers of the U. States , and on the ...
Page 45
... covered over with nets supported by hooped sticks bending from one side to the other ; so that they form a vault or arch growing narrower and narrower to the point , where it is terminated by a tun- nel - net , like that in which fish ...
... covered over with nets supported by hooped sticks bending from one side to the other ; so that they form a vault or arch growing narrower and narrower to the point , where it is terminated by a tun- nel - net , like that in which fish ...
Page 49
... under chap ; but , by opening the bill , and putting one's hand down into the bag , it may be distended at pleasure . It is not VOL . IV . C covered with feathers , but a short downy substance , THE DUCK GENUS ... THE PELICAN . 49.
... under chap ; but , by opening the bill , and putting one's hand down into the bag , it may be distended at pleasure . It is not VOL . IV . C covered with feathers , but a short downy substance , THE DUCK GENUS ... THE PELICAN . 49.
Page 50
... covered with feathers , but a short downy substance , as smooth and soft as satin . Tertre affirms , that this pouch will hold as many fish as will serve sixty hungry men for a meal . Such is the formation of this extraordinary bird ...
... covered with feathers , but a short downy substance , as smooth and soft as satin . Tertre affirms , that this pouch will hold as many fish as will serve sixty hungry men for a meal . Such is the formation of this extraordinary bird ...
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... covered more warmly all over the body with feathers than any other birds whatever ; so that the sea seems entirely their element . The PATAGONIAN PENGUIN weighs about forty pounds , and is four feet three inches in length . The bill ...
... covered more warmly all over the body with feathers than any other birds whatever ; so that the sea seems entirely their element . The PATAGONIAN PENGUIN weighs about forty pounds , and is four feet three inches in length . The bill ...
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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