A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... Ray - The Skate The Rough - Ray - The Thornback - Manner of fishing for Flat Fish - The Sting Ray - The Torpedo - The Sea Devil -The Sea Eagle - The Lamprey - The Sturgeon - The Ising- glass Fish - The Angler - The Diodon , or Sun Fish ...
... Ray - The Skate The Rough - Ray - The Thornback - Manner of fishing for Flat Fish - The Sting Ray - The Torpedo - The Sea Devil -The Sea Eagle - The Lamprey - The Sturgeon - The Ising- glass Fish - The Angler - The Diodon , or Sun Fish ...
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... RAY ... The Skate ... The Rough - Ray ... The Thornback ... Manner of fishing for Flat Fish ... The Sting Ray ... The Torpedo ... The Sea Devil ... The Sea Eagle ... The LAMPREY ... The STURGEON ... The Isinglass Fish ... The ANGLER ...
... RAY ... The Skate ... The Rough - Ray ... The Thornback ... Manner of fishing for Flat Fish ... The Sting Ray ... The Torpedo ... The Sea Devil ... The Sea Eagle ... The LAMPREY ... The STURGEON ... The Isinglass Fish ... The ANGLER ...
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... ray , and par- takes in some degree of the nature of both . It grows to a very large size , sometimes a hundred weight . The head is large ; the teeth broad at the base , slender and sharp at the point . Like those of other Sharks ...
... ray , and par- takes in some degree of the nature of both . It grows to a very large size , sometimes a hundred weight . The head is large ; the teeth broad at the base , slender and sharp at the point . Like those of other Sharks ...
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... RAY . THE whole of this genus resemble each other very strong- ly in their figure ; nor is it easy without experience to dis- tinguish one from another . The stranger to this danger- ous tribe may imagine he is only handling a skate ...
... RAY . THE whole of this genus resemble each other very strong- ly in their figure ; nor is it easy without experience to dis- tinguish one from another . The stranger to this danger- ous tribe may imagine he is only handling a skate ...
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... RAY has ten spines , that are situated towards the middle of the back . The ROUGH RAY has its spines spread indiscriminately over the whole back . The THORNBACK has its spines disposed in three rows upon the back . The STING RAY , OF ...
... RAY has ten spines , that are situated towards the middle of the back . The ROUGH RAY has its spines spread indiscriminately over the whole back . The THORNBACK has its spines disposed in three rows upon the back . The STING RAY , OF ...
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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