Animal biography, or, Popular zoology, Том 31829 |
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... night . This they do more fre- quently as the winter advances , and the trees lose their foliage . The male birds , at these times , make a noise , which they repeat three or four times successively , called by sportsmen cocketing . The ...
... night . This they do more fre- quently as the winter advances , and the trees lose their foliage . The male birds , at these times , make a noise , which they repeat three or four times successively , called by sportsmen cocketing . The ...
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... night it perches on high places ; and , if disturbed , alarms every animal within hearing , by its unceasing cry . These birds delight in rolling themselves in the dust , for the purpose , as some naturalists have conjec- tured , of ...
... night it perches on high places ; and , if disturbed , alarms every animal within hearing , by its unceasing cry . These birds delight in rolling themselves in the dust , for the purpose , as some naturalists have conjec- tured , of ...
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... night , to perform a flight of fifty leagues across the Black Sea ; a wonderful distance for so short - winged a bird . Such prodigious numbers of Quails have sometimes appeared on the western coasts of the kingdom of Na- ples , that a ...
... night , to perform a flight of fifty leagues across the Black Sea ; a wonderful distance for so short - winged a bird . Such prodigious numbers of Quails have sometimes appeared on the western coasts of the kingdom of Na- ples , that a ...
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... night ; and Kolben , who saw great numbers of Ostriches at the Cape of Good Hope , affirms , that they sit on their eggs like other birds , and that the males and females take this office by turns , as he had frequent opportunities of ...
... night ; and Kolben , who saw great numbers of Ostriches at the Cape of Good Hope , affirms , that they sit on their eggs like other birds , and that the males and females take this office by turns , as he had frequent opportunities of ...
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... night they often utter a doleful or hideous cry , somewhat resembling the distant roaring of a lion , or the hoarse tone of a bear or an ox , as if they were in great agony . They will swallow , with the utmost voracity , rags , leather ...
... night they often utter a doleful or hideous cry , somewhat resembling the distant roaring of a lion , or the hoarse tone of a bear or an ox , as if they were in great agony . They will swallow , with the utmost voracity , rags , leather ...
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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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