A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... eight inches from tip to tail . The head is round and small , with a large bill , seven inches long , partly red , partly black , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are ...
... eight inches from tip to tail . The head is round and small , with a large bill , seven inches long , partly red , partly black , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are ...
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... eight to ten feet deep . It particularly seeks to dig under a stone , where it expects the greatest security . In this fortified retreat it lays one egg ; which , though the bird be not much bigger than a pigeon , is the size of a hen's ...
... eight to ten feet deep . It particularly seeks to dig under a stone , where it expects the greatest security . In this fortified retreat it lays one egg ; which , though the bird be not much bigger than a pigeon , is the size of a hen's ...
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... eight white eggs , one every other day , much larger than those of a goose , with a hard , and some- times a tuberous shell . It sits six weeks before its young bank , and chiefly This is composed and the male and are excluded ; which ...
... eight white eggs , one every other day , much larger than those of a goose , with a hard , and some- times a tuberous shell . It sits six weeks before its young bank , and chiefly This is composed and the male and are excluded ; which ...
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... eight or nine individuals . On being disturb- ed , they fly off in a direct line one after the other , like wild geese . THE GOOSE , In its domestic state , exhibits a variety of colours . The WILD GOOSE , or GRAY LAG , always retains ...
... eight or nine individuals . On being disturb- ed , they fly off in a direct line one after the other , like wild geese . THE GOOSE , In its domestic state , exhibits a variety of colours . The WILD GOOSE , or GRAY LAG , always retains ...
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... eight ) , which are large , smooth , glossy , and of a pale olive colour . She generally lays among stones , or plants , near the sea , but in a soft bed of down , which she plucks from her own breast . Sometimes two females will lay ...
... eight ) , which are large , smooth , glossy , and of a pale olive colour . She generally lays among stones , or plants , near the sea , but in a soft bed of down , which she plucks from her own breast . Sometimes two females will lay ...
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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