A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... placed on chimneys ; on the top it is hollowed out to the shape of the bird , and in that cavity the female lays her eggs , without any lining but the well cemented mud that forms the sides of the building . She always lays two eggs ...
... placed on chimneys ; on the top it is hollowed out to the shape of the bird , and in that cavity the female lays her eggs , without any lining but the well cemented mud that forms the sides of the building . She always lays two eggs ...
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... placed their nests . It unfor- tunately too often happens that the man who holds the rope has not a footing sufficiently secure , and in that case both of them inevitably perish . Some precipices are so abrupt , that they are not by any ...
... placed their nests . It unfor- tunately too often happens that the man who holds the rope has not a footing sufficiently secure , and in that case both of them inevitably perish . Some precipices are so abrupt , that they are not by any ...
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... placed one above another ; and it is said that the gozzard , or gooseherd , who has the care of them , drives the whole flock to water twice a day , and bringing them back to their habitations , places every bird in its own nest . The ...
... placed one above another ; and it is said that the gozzard , or gooseherd , who has the care of them , drives the whole flock to water twice a day , and bringing them back to their habitations , places every bird in its own nest . The ...
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... them for living upon land , adapts them admirably for a residence in water ; in that , the legs placed behind the moving body , push it forward with greater velocity ; and these birds , like Indian canoes , are the swiftest THE PENGUIN .
... them for living upon land , adapts them admirably for a residence in water ; in that , the legs placed behind the moving body , push it forward with greater velocity ; and these birds , like Indian canoes , are the swiftest THE PENGUIN .
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... 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 fish . The ventral fins are placed towards the lower part of the body , under ...
... 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 fish . The ventral fins are placed towards the lower part of the body , under ...
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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