Transactions of the Linnean Society, Том 9The Society, 1808 Vols. 5-21 include section: "Catalogue of the Library of the Linnean Society." |
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Сторінка 178 - It often measures nine feet in length from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, and when full grown, weighs two hundred pounds.
Сторінка 198 - ... in a much lower tone than I have heard the old birds in their natural haunts. This song is different from any thing of the kind I ever heard, but in part resembles most that of the stone-chat.
Сторінка 177 - The history of this new and singular quadruped is at present but little known. Only two specimens (both males) have yet been taken. It inhabits amongst caverns and rocks in the deep and almost impenetrable glens in the neighbourhood of the highest mountainous parts of Van Diemen's Land, where it probably preys on the brush Kangaroo, and various small animals that abound in those places. That from which this description and the drawing accompanying it were taken, was caught in a trap baited with kangaroo...
Сторінка 197 - ... quiet. Nothing can exceed the activity of these little creatures ; they are in perpetual motion the whole day, throwing themselves into various attitudes and gesticulations, erecting the crest and tail at intervals, accompanied by a double or triple cry, which seems to express the words
Сторінка 179 - These animals were very common on our first settling at Hobart Town, and were particularly destructive to poultry, &c. They however furnished the convicts with a fresh meal, and the taste was said to be not unlike veal. As the settlement increased, and the ground became cleared, they were driven from their haunts near the town to the deeper recesses of the forests yet unexplored.
Сторінка 188 - I had compelled nature to declare her secrets before the appointed time ; for in every other respect their plumage was yet similar, excepting about the sides of the face, which were paler in colour in the former, in which also the irides were of a dull yellow, somewhat mottled, whereas in the latter they still continued dark. The shyness of these hawks had occasioned their breaking most of their larger feathers, although...
Сторінка 254 - Holland, at the foot of the mountains, in a loamy soil, near a spot where, after being tantalized with finding many salt springs, his party had just met with an ample supply of fresh water. This welcome refreshment, of which he speaks feelingly in his book, seems to have suggested a name for his plant, which he had properly determined to constitute a new genus.
Сторінка 170 - were taken in a large cavern near Torquay in Devonshire, commonly known by the appellation of Kent's-hole, and where both species are usually observed in considerable abundance clinging to the vaulted roof of the interior apartments. This vast cavern was explored with a view to obtain whatever species of Vespertilio might inhabit it, and with expectation of procuring specimens of V. Barbastellus, and possibly some new species, having been informed the cave abounded in number and variety. Strange,...
Сторінка 188 - Ringtail or female still remains about the neck, the smaller coverts of the wings, the thighs, and part of the belly, intermixed with the male plumage: the top of the head and wreath have also a mixture of the feathers of both sexes : the quills, scapulars, and tail, are completely masculine ; in the last of these there are a few small broken bars of cinereous-brown on a white ground, in the three outer feathers, the exterior margins cinereous-gray ; the six middle feathers are almost wholly gray,...
Сторінка 326 - Society. self and family were at tea, a young female cat, which, on account of extreme playfulness, had become a great favourite, was lying on the hearth. She was pregnant for the second time, and had arrived, as nearly as I can recollect, at the middle period of gestation. A servant handing the tea-kettle, or doing some office which led her to pass between the fire and the table, trod very heavily on the creature's tail. She screamed most frightfully, and ran out of the room ; and from the nature...