First Steps to ZoologySimms and M'Intyre, 1849 |
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... occasionally found seve- ral yards in length . Its head is furnished with suckers and bris- tles , by means of which it can fix itself securely . Each joint of the body has the power of producing thousands of ova or eggs . When these ...
... occasionally found seve- ral yards in length . Its head is furnished with suckers and bris- tles , by means of which it can fix itself securely . Each joint of the body has the power of producing thousands of ova or eggs . When these ...
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... occasionally carried to our shores by the winds and currents of the ocean . As one example of these , the little Velella ( Fig . 17 ) may be mentioned . Fixed obliquely across a bluish oval disc , it exhibits a snowy crest , which has ...
... occasionally carried to our shores by the winds and currents of the ocean . As one example of these , the little Velella ( Fig . 17 ) may be mentioned . Fixed obliquely across a bluish oval disc , it exhibits a snowy crest , which has ...
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... occasionally thrown upon our coast ; others are about the size of peas ; and many scarcely exceed in dimensions the head of a large - sized pin . Some species are adorned with brilliant colours , and equal , in the richness of their ...
... occasionally thrown upon our coast ; others are about the size of peas ; and many scarcely exceed in dimensions the head of a large - sized pin . Some species are adorned with brilliant colours , and equal , in the richness of their ...
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... occasional visiters . Every one who has opened the " shell " of the common Crab has noticed a number of leaf - like organs , regularly arranged into two parcels , with the points of the little leaves . or plates in each parcel brought ...
... occasional visiters . Every one who has opened the " shell " of the common Crab has noticed a number of leaf - like organs , regularly arranged into two parcels , with the points of the little leaves . or plates in each parcel brought ...
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... occasionally found in one mussel or one pinna . The hermit - crabs belong to a different order . The tail is prolonged and soft , and hence , in self - defence , the animal is obliged to occupy some univalve shell , which has been de ...
... occasionally found in one mussel or one pinna . The hermit - crabs belong to a different order . The tail is prolonged and soft , and hence , in self - defence , the animal is obliged to occupy some univalve shell , which has been de ...
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Acorn-shells adapted annexed figure Fig appearance arms arranged beak beautiful beetles belonging birds Bittern Black-headed Gull body CARNIVORA Cetacea coasts colour common consists constitute covering crab creature Crustacea Cuttle-fish different species distinguished earth edible crab eggs Entozoa exhibit existence eyes feathers feet female fins fish flight floating four furnished gills habits head Horse-leech inches INFUSORIA inhabitants insects Ireland islands jaws known larvæ Leech legs length living lower MAGNIFIED membranous Mollusca Mollusks Monkeys mouth mussel naturalists nest NORTHERN DIVER Opossums organs Owls oyster peculiar PELICAN ISLAND Pinna placed poet Polypes possess pouch present order prey quadrupeds rays regarded remarkable reptiles resemble scientific name sea-water seen shell shores silk singular Soft-bodied animals Star-fish Stickle-back stomach structure substance suckers surface Swallow tail teeth tentacula Teredo term tion Tortoises trees tribes vegetable vertebrate vertebrate animals Vultures Whale wings worms young Zoea
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Page 41 - He with a smile did then his words repeat ; And said, that gathering leeches, far and wide He travelled ; stirring thus about his feet The waters of the pools where they abide. " Once I could meet with them on every side, But they have dwindled long by slow decay ; Yet still I persevere, and find them where I may.
Page 185 - Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Page 173 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 237 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone...
Page 180 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 73 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Page 140 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 155 - The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: The spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling stones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Page 222 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 171 - The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, The plain-song cuckoo gray, Whose note full many a man doth mark, And dares not answer, nay...