A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... Shell Fish in general --- The Crustaceous kind --- The Lobster --The Spiny Lobster --- The Crab --- The Land Crab --- The Vio- let Crab --The Soldier Crab --- The Shrimp --- The Prawn --- The Tortoise --- The Land Tortoise --- The ...
... Shell Fish in general --- The Crustaceous kind --- The Lobster --The Spiny Lobster --- The Crab --- The Land Crab --- The Vio- let Crab --The Soldier Crab --- The Shrimp --- The Prawn --- The Tortoise --- The Land Tortoise --- The ...
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... Shell Fish --- The Sea Urchin --- The Pholades CHAP . X. 198 Of Reptiles --- The Frog --- The Toad --- Varieties --- Surinam Toad --- Of Lizards --- The Crocodile and Alligator --- The Open - bellied Crocodile --- The Salamander --- The ...
... Shell Fish --- The Sea Urchin --- The Pholades CHAP . X. 198 Of Reptiles --- The Frog --- The Toad --- Varieties --- Surinam Toad --- Of Lizards --- The Crocodile and Alligator --- The Open - bellied Crocodile --- The Salamander --- The ...
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... shell - fish , aquatic insects , and on eggs and spawn , that are deposited in the mud . This bird is known on the sea coast as the Stilt , Tilt , or Long Shanks ; and naturalists have unaccountably classed it with the genus Plover ...
... shell - fish , aquatic insects , and on eggs and spawn , that are deposited in the mud . This bird is known on the sea coast as the Stilt , Tilt , or Long Shanks ; and naturalists have unaccountably classed it with the genus Plover ...
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... those of a goose , with a hard , and some- times a tuberous shell . It sits six weeks before its young bank , and chiefly This is composed and the male and are excluded ; which are ash coloured when they first B2 THE DUCK GENUS . 27.
... those of a goose , with a hard , and some- times a tuberous shell . It sits six weeks before its young bank , and chiefly This is composed and the male and are excluded ; which are ash coloured when they first B2 THE DUCK GENUS . 27.
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... shell , and for some months after . It is not a little dangerous to approach the old ones , when their lit- tle family are feeding around them . Their fears as well as their pride seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old ...
... shell , and for some months after . It is not a little dangerous to approach the old ones , when their lit- tle family are feeding around them . Their fears as well as their pride seem to take the alarm , and when in danger , the old ...
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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