A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... round and small , with a large bill , seven inches long , partly red , partly black , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are about two feet eight inches high ; and its neck ...
... round and small , with a large bill , seven inches long , partly red , partly black , and crooked like a bow . The legs and thighs , which are not much thicker than a man's fin- ger , are about two feet eight inches high ; and its neck ...
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... round the rockiest shores that they are seen in the greatest abundance : it is there that the Gull breeds and brings up its young ; it is there that millions of them are heard screaming with discordant notes for months together . The ...
... round the rockiest shores that they are seen in the greatest abundance : it is there that the Gull breeds and brings up its young ; it is there that millions of them are heard screaming with discordant notes for months together . The ...
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... round crest , the middle of which is white . The back and quills are black , the tail dusky ; and the breast and belly white , undulated with black . The female is fainter in the colour of her plumage , and has a smaller crest . THE ...
... round crest , the middle of which is white . The back and quills are black , the tail dusky ; and the breast and belly white , undulated with black . The female is fainter in the colour of her plumage , and has a smaller crest . THE ...
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... round several times , alight in the middle of the yard . Imagine his surprise and pleasure , when , by certain well re- membered signs , he recognised in one of the three his long lost fugitive . It was she indeed ! She had travelled ...
... round several times , alight in the middle of the yard . Imagine his surprise and pleasure , when , by certain well re- membered signs , he recognised in one of the three his long lost fugitive . It was she indeed ! She had travelled ...
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... round the eyes , and which is a native of Africa . The BRAZILIAN DUCK , which is of the size of a goose , all over black , except the tips of the wings . The AMERICAN WOOD DUCK , with a variety of beautiful colours , and a plume of ...
... round the eyes , and which is a native of Africa . The BRAZILIAN DUCK , which is of the size of a goose , all over black , except the tips of the wings . The AMERICAN WOOD DUCK , with a variety of beautiful colours , and a plume 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