A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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Page 12
... seldom found to the south of Scotland . Of the foreign birds of this species , the CHINESE DIVER is the only animal worth notice . The upper parts of the plumage are of a greenish brown ; the under parts a reddish white , marked with ...
... seldom found to the south of Scotland . Of the foreign birds of this species , the CHINESE DIVER is the only animal worth notice . The upper parts of the plumage are of a greenish brown ; the under parts a reddish white , marked with ...
Page 25
... seldom seek any other . They are easily provi- ded for ; wherever there is water there seems to be plen- ty . All the other web - footed tribes are continually vora- cious , continually preying . These lead more harmless lives the weeds ...
... seldom seek any other . They are easily provi- ded for ; wherever there is water there seems to be plen- ty . All the other web - footed tribes are continually vora- cious , continually preying . These lead more harmless lives the weeds ...
Page 26
... seldom brought to table , unless for the purpose of ostentation . But at all times the flesh of the duck was in high esteem ; the ancients thought even more highly of it than we do . We are contented to eat it as a delicacy ; they also ...
... seldom brought to table , unless for the purpose of ostentation . But at all times the flesh of the duck was in high esteem ; the ancients thought even more highly of it than we do . We are contented to eat it as a delicacy ; they also ...
Page 39
... seldom seen afterwards on land . In Iceland , the Eider Ducks generally build their nests on small islands , not far from the shore ; and sometimes even near the dwellings of the natives , who treat them with so much attention and ...
... seldom seen afterwards on land . In Iceland , the Eider Ducks generally build their nests on small islands , not far from the shore ; and sometimes even near the dwellings of the natives , who treat them with so much attention and ...
Page 44
... seldom found so well tasted or so fat as the fowls that continue there the year round : their flesh is often lean , and still oftener fishy ; which flavour it has probably contracted in the jour- ney , as their food in the lakes of ...
... seldom found so well tasted or so fat as the fowls that continue there the year round : their flesh is often lean , and still oftener fishy ; which flavour it has probably contracted in the jour- ney , as their food in the lakes 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