A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... Fin Fish - The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn - The Spermaceti Whale - The Dolphin - Grampus , Porpesse , & c . CHAP . VIII . - PART I. 64 Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of the Shark - The White Shark --- The Blue , the Long - tailed , the Basking ...
... Fin Fish - The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn - The Spermaceti Whale - The Dolphin - Grampus , Porpesse , & c . CHAP . VIII . - PART I. 64 Of Cartilaginous Fishes - Of the Shark - The White Shark --- The Blue , the Long - tailed , the Basking ...
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... , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are about two feet eight inches high ; and its neck near three feet long . The feet are feeble , 12 AVOSET .... COURIER .... FLAMINGO . 3.
... , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are about two feet eight inches high ; and its neck near three feet long . The feet are feeble , 12 AVOSET .... COURIER .... FLAMINGO . 3.
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... fin - like instruments , that beat the water before , and serve for all the purposes of swimming rather than flying . There are CRESTED PENGUINS at Falkland's Island , which are very beautiful birds . This is sometimes called the ...
... fin - like instruments , that beat the water before , and serve for all the purposes of swimming rather than flying . There are CRESTED PENGUINS at Falkland's Island , which are very beautiful birds . This is sometimes called the ...
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... Fin Fish ... The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn ... The SPER- MACETI WHALE ... The DOLPHIN ... Grampus , Porpesse , & c . THE number of fish to which we have given names , and with the figure of which at least we are a little acquaint- ed , is ...
... Fin Fish ... The Narwal , or Sea Unicorn ... The SPER- MACETI WHALE ... The DOLPHIN ... Grampus , Porpesse , & c . THE number of fish to which we have given names , and with the figure of which at least we are a little acquaint- ed , is ...
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... fins of fish are denominated from their situations . The pectoral fins are placed at a little distance behind the opening of the gills , and are large and strong ; and serve as well to balance the body as to assist the motion of the ...
... fins of fish are denominated from their situations . The pectoral fins are placed at a little distance behind the opening of the gills , and are large and strong ; and serve as well to balance the body as to assist the motion of the ...
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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