A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... move without tum- bling . This makes it rise with difficulty , and subject to many falls before it gets upon the wing ; but as it is a small bird , when it once rises , it can continue its flight with great celerity All the winter these ...
... move without tum- bling . This makes it rise with difficulty , and subject to many falls before it gets upon the wing ; but as it is a small bird , when it once rises , it can continue its flight with great celerity All the winter these ...
Page 27
... moving at pleasure with- out the smallest apparent effort , there is not a more beau- tiful figure in all nature . In its form , we find no broken or harsh lines ; in its motions , nothing constrained or ab- rupt , but the roundest ...
... moving at pleasure with- out the smallest apparent effort , there is not a more beau- tiful figure in all nature . In its form , we find no broken or harsh lines ; in its motions , nothing constrained or ab- rupt , but the roundest ...
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... moves im- perceptibly towards the fowls , who suspect no danger . At last , however , he fairly gets in among them ; while they , having been long used to see gourds , take not the least fright while the enemy is in the very midst of ...
... moves im- perceptibly towards the fowls , who suspect no danger . At last , however , he fairly gets in among them ; while they , having been long used to see gourds , take not the least fright while the enemy is in the very midst of ...
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... move a minuet . Their short legs drive the body in progression from side to side ; and were they not assisted by their wings , they could scarcely move faster than a tortoise . This awkward position of the legs , which so unqualifies ...
... move a minuet . Their short legs drive the body in progression from side to side ; and were they not assisted by their wings , they could scarcely move faster than a tortoise . This awkward position of the legs , which so unqualifies ...
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... move , and even advance con- siderably before her . 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 ...
... move , and even advance con- siderably before her . 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 ...
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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