A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... River - The Smew - The Hooded Merganser - The Duck -The Swan - The Black Swan - The Goose - The Bean Goose - The Barnacle - The Brent Goose - The Mallard - The Eider Duck - The Velvet , Scoter , Tufted , and Scaup Duck- The Golden Eye ...
... River - The Smew - The Hooded Merganser - The Duck -The Swan - The Black Swan - The Goose - The Bean Goose - The Barnacle - The Brent Goose - The Mallard - The Eider Duck - The Velvet , Scoter , Tufted , and Scaup Duck- The Golden Eye ...
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... River .... The Smew ... The Hooded Merganser ... The Duck ... The Swan ... The Black Swan .. The Goose ... The Bean Goose ... The Barnacle ... The Brent Goose ... The Mallard ... The Eider Duck ... The Velvet , Scoter , Tufted , and ...
... River .... The Smew ... The Hooded Merganser ... The Duck ... The Swan ... The Black Swan .. The Goose ... The Bean Goose ... The Barnacle ... The Brent Goose ... The Mallard ... The Eider Duck ... The Velvet , Scoter , Tufted , and ...
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... known to most readers . It is seen with slow - sailing flight hovering over rivers , to prey upon the smaller kinds of fish : it is seen following the ploughman in fallow fields to pick up insects ; and. THE PETRELS .... THE GULL . 17.
... known to most readers . It is seen with slow - sailing flight hovering over rivers , to prey upon the smaller kinds of fish : it is seen following the ploughman in fallow fields to pick up insects ; and. THE PETRELS .... THE GULL . 17.
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... the sea shores , fresh wa- ter lakes and rivers of the United Sates . It comes in November , and disappears in April . We have no account of their mauner of breeding . found in the same places and has the same manners.
... the sea shores , fresh wa- ter lakes and rivers of the United Sates . It comes in November , and disappears in April . We have no account of their mauner of breeding . found in the same places and has the same manners.
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... river , as far as the conservancy of it belongs to the city of Lon- don , they are under the care of the corporation ; and at certain times the lord mayor , aldermen , & c . proceed up the Thames , to what is commonly called the Swan ...
... river , as far as the conservancy of it belongs to the city of Lon- don , they are under the care of the corporation ; and at certain times the lord mayor , aldermen , & c . proceed up the Thames , to what is commonly called the Swan ...
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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