A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... inhabitants Cape May , the Lawyer . I found these birds , as well as the Long - legged Avoset , in the salt marshes of New - Jersey on the 20th of May . They flew around the shallow pools , uttering the sharp note of click , click ...
... inhabitants Cape May , the Lawyer . I found these birds , as well as the Long - legged Avoset , in the salt marshes of New - Jersey on the 20th of May . They flew around the shallow pools , uttering the sharp note of click , click ...
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... inhabitants of the North as a sovereign remedy in many complaints both external and internal . The flesh is also considered by them as a delicacy , and the bird is therefore in great request at St. Kilda . When a whale is taken , these ...
... inhabitants of the North as a sovereign remedy in many complaints both external and internal . The flesh is also considered by them as a delicacy , and the bird is therefore in great request at St. Kilda . When a whale is taken , these ...
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... inhabitants draw a wick through the body of the bird , from the mouth to the rump , which serves them as a can- dle , being fed by the vast proportion of oil which this little animal contains . This oil it is supposed to collect from ...
... inhabitants draw a wick through the body of the bird , from the mouth to the rump , which serves them as a can- dle , being fed by the vast proportion of oil which this little animal contains . This oil it is supposed to collect from ...
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... is a most formidable bird , as it not only preys upon fish , but upon all the smaller waterfowl , and even on young lambs . It has the fierceness of the eagle in defend- ing its young ; and when the inhabitants of the 18 NATURAL HISTORY .
... is a most formidable bird , as it not only preys upon fish , but upon all the smaller waterfowl , and even on young lambs . It has the fierceness of the eagle in defend- ing its young ; and when the inhabitants of the 18 NATURAL HISTORY .
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... inhabitants of the Faro isles attack its nest , they hold a knife over their heads , on which the Skua will transfix itself in its fall on the invaders . On the rocky island of Foula , one of the Shetland isles , it is a privileged bird ...
... inhabitants of the Faro isles attack its nest , they hold a knife over their heads , on which the Skua will transfix itself in its fall on the invaders . On the rocky island of Foula , one of the Shetland isles , it is a privileged bird ...
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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