Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Том 31829 |
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... approach within gun - shot . It has been asserted that the Pheasant imagines itself out of danger whenever its head only is concealed . Sportsmen , however , who recount the stratagems that they have known old cock Pheasants to adopt ...
... approach within gun - shot . It has been asserted that the Pheasant imagines itself out of danger whenever its head only is concealed . Sportsmen , however , who recount the stratagems that they have known old cock Pheasants to adopt ...
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... approach the table and eat out of his plate ; and , when they had liberty to fly about upon the beach , they always re- turned to the ship , when the dinner or supper bell rang . It is even said that the wild birds will sometimes ...
... approach the table and eat out of his plate ; and , when they had liberty to fly about upon the beach , they always re- turned to the ship , when the dinner or supper bell rang . It is even said that the wild birds will sometimes ...
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... approach of winter ; when they unite , with several others , into packs . Red Grous have been known to breed in confine- DESCRIPTION . The weight of the male is about nineteen and of the female fifteen ounces . The bill is black ; and ...
... approach of winter ; when they unite , with several others , into packs . Red Grous have been known to breed in confine- DESCRIPTION . The weight of the male is about nineteen and of the female fifteen ounces . The bill is black ; and ...
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... approach its master . 66 Nearly all these birds have a habit of following peo- ple through the streets , and out of town ; even those whom they have never seen before . It is difficult to get rid of them ; if a person enter a house ...
... approach its master . 66 Nearly all these birds have a habit of following peo- ple through the streets , and out of town ; even those whom they have never seen before . It is difficult to get rid of them ; if a person enter a house ...
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... approaches it of a dirty or ragged appearance , or dressed in red clothes ; and fre- quently attempts to strike at them by kicking forward with its feet . It has been known even to leap out of its enclosure , and to tear the legs of a ...
... approaches it of a dirty or ragged appearance , or dressed in red clothes ; and fre- quently attempts to strike at them by kicking forward with its feet . It has been known even to leap out of its enclosure , and to tear the legs of a ...
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afterwards anal fins animals appear bait belly bill birds Bittern body breed Brit brown Cassowary catch caught coasts colour common Common Pheasant covered Crocodile deposit DESCRIPTION devour distance dorsal fin Ducks Edible Frog eggs Electrical Eel eyes feathers feed feet female fins fish flesh flocks four frequently Frog goose Greek Tortoise ground hatched head hundred inches inhabitants insects islands jaws killed Lapwing legs length Linn.-Le Linnæus Lizard male mandible months mouth nearly neck nest Ostrich oviparous Partridge pectoral fins Pelecan Pheasant Plate plumage pond pounds prey rivers season seen seize seldom Shark shell shoals shore side skin slender snake sometimes soon spawn species spots spring surface swallow swim SYNONYMS tail taken thick Toad toes trees tribe Turtles upper usually voracious weight WHITE STORK whole wings winter worms young young-ones Zool
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Сторінка 46 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them.
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Сторінка 96 - ... as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill ; in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose...
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Сторінка 96 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace, or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea...
Сторінка 51 - Most people have, one time or other, seen a partridge run, and consequently must know that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably augmented. The ostrich...
Сторінка 141 - March last, when it was enough awakened to express its resentments by hissing; and, packing it in a box with earth, carried it eighty miles in post-chaises. The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Сторінка 219 - The aggressor was of the black kind, six feet long; the fugitive was a water snake, nearly of equal dimensions. They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate each other.
Сторінка 315 - THE electric organs of the torpedo are placed on each side of the cranium and gills, reaching from thence to the semicircular cartilages of each great fin, and extending longitudinally from the anterior extremity of the animal to the transverse cartilage, which divides the thorax from the abdomen...
Сторінка 276 - I spake to you formerly, that keeps tame Otters, that he hath known a Pike in extreme hunger, fight with one of his Otters for a Carp that the Otter had caught, and was then bringing out of the water.