A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, Insects, and Plants, Volume 4Gray & Bowen, 1831 |
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... 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 . - Wilson . THE COURIER Is an Italian bird ...
... 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 . - Wilson . THE COURIER Is an Italian bird ...
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... spawn . Wonderful as it may appear to see creatures existing in a medium so dense that men , beasts , and birds must inev- * This bird is an inhabitant of the Carolinas , Georgia , the Flori- das , and Louisiana ; and is common in ...
... spawn . Wonderful as it may appear to see creatures existing in a medium so dense that men , beasts , and birds must inev- * This bird is an inhabitant of the Carolinas , Georgia , the Flori- das , and Louisiana ; and is common in ...
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... flounder pro- duces at once above a million , and the mackerel five hun- dred thousand . The spawn continues in its egg state in some fishes longer than in others , and this generally in proportion 66 NATURAL HISTORY .
... flounder pro- duces at once above a million , and the mackerel five hun- dred thousand . The spawn continues in its egg state in some fishes longer than in others , and this generally in proportion 66 NATURAL HISTORY .
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... spawn are the prey of all the inhabitants of the water , even of their own parents ; and scarcely one in a thousand escapes the numerous perils of its youth . Such is the general picture of these heedless and hun- gry creatures ; but ...
... spawn are the prey of all the inhabitants of the water , even of their own parents ; and scarcely one in a thousand escapes the numerous perils of its youth . Such is the general picture of these heedless and hun- gry creatures ; but ...
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... spawn , and leave the success to accident ; these never produce above one young , or two at the most ; and this the female suckles entirely in the man- ner of quadrupeds , her breasts being placed , as in the hu- man kind , above the ...
... spawn , and leave the success to accident ; these never produce above one young , or two at the most ; and this the female suckles entirely in the man- ner of quadrupeds , her breasts being placed , as in the hu- man kind , above the ...
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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