Reptiles and birds [tr.] ed. and adapted by P. Gillmore |
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... rivers , and ponds , which are alternately deluged with the overflow of the adjacent waters , or are parched from the exhalations produced by summer heat ; regions which could only be inhabited by beings capable of living on land or in ...
... rivers , and ponds , which are alternately deluged with the overflow of the adjacent waters , or are parched from the exhalations produced by summer heat ; regions which could only be inhabited by beings capable of living on land or in ...
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... rivers , and ponds , which are alternately deluged with the overflow of the adjacent waters , or are parched from the exhalations produced by summer heat ; regions which could only be inhabited by beings capable of living on land or in ...
... rivers , and ponds , which are alternately deluged with the overflow of the adjacent waters , or are parched from the exhalations produced by summer heat ; regions which could only be inhabited by beings capable of living on land or in ...
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... rivers and meadows , by the side of water- courses , into which they love to plunge , are sometimes called Water Serpents , Swimming Serpents , Hedge Eels , and other provincial synonyms . They sometimes attain to a yard in length . The ...
... rivers and meadows , by the side of water- courses , into which they love to plunge , are sometimes called Water Serpents , Swimming Serpents , Hedge Eels , and other provincial synonyms . They sometimes attain to a yard in length . The ...
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... rivers . They are non- venomous , but possessed of immense muscular power , which enables some of the species to kill by constriction animals of much larger circumference than themselves . Aristotle tells us of immense Lybian serpents ...
... rivers . They are non- venomous , but possessed of immense muscular power , which enables some of the species to kill by constriction animals of much larger circumference than themselves . Aristotle tells us of immense Lybian serpents ...
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... river , is explained by the structure of the tail . Dr. Meyer has minutely described the manner in which they hook themselves to a tree , which gives them the power of a double fulcrum . The apparatus which gives this power is a spur or ...
... river , is explained by the structure of the tail . Dr. Meyer has minutely described the manner in which they hook themselves to a tree , which gives them the power of a double fulcrum . The apparatus which gives this power is a spur or ...
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Стр. 373 - ... by digging out the mortar, broke countless squares of glass by scraping away the putty all round the frames, and tore up and swallowed, in splinters, the greater part of a wooden staircase of six steps and a landing — but after some three years he too was taken ill, and died before the kitchen fire. He kept his eye to the last upon the meat as it roasted, and suddenly turned over on his back with a sepulchral cry of ' Cuckoo ! ' After this mournful deprivation I was, for a long time, ravenless.
Стр. 95 - I do not recollect having observed this sea-weed in any quantity on the tidal rocks; and I have reason to believe it grows at the bottom of the sea, at some little distance from the coast. If such is the case, the object of these animals occasionally going out to sea is explained.
Стр. 373 - It may have been that he was too bright a genius to live long, or it may have been that he took some pernicious substance into his bill, and thence into his maw, — which is not improbable, seeing that he newpointed the greater part of the...
Стр. 372 - good gifts," which he improved by study and attention in a most exemplary manner. He slept in a stable — generally on horseback — and so terrified a Newfoundland dog by his preternatural sagacity, that he has been known, by the mere superiority of his genius, to walk off unmolested with the dog's dinner from before his face. He was rapidly rising in acquirements and virtues when in an evil hour his stable was newly painted. He observed the workmen closely, saw that they were careful of the paint,...
Стр. 95 - As soon as it arrived near the margin, but still being under water, it either tried to conceal itself in the tufts of sea-weed, or it entered some crevice. As soon as it thought the danger was past, it crawled out on the dry rocks, and shuffled away as quickly as it could.
Стр. 95 - ... there is in this respect one strange anomaly, namely, that when frightened it will not enter the water. Hence it is easy to drive these lizards down to any little point overhanging the sea, where they will sooner allow a person to catch hold of their tails than jump into the water. They do not seem to have any notion of biting; but when much frightened they squirt a drop of fluid from each nostril. I...
Стр. 372 - While I was yet inconsolable for his loss, another friend of mine in Yorkshire discovered an older and more gifted raven at a village public-house, which he prevailed upon the landlord to part with for a consideration, and sent up to me.
Стр. 124 - On arriving at the edge of the forest I mounted the sentinel's stage, just in time to see the turtles retreating to the water on the opposite side of the sand-bank, after having laid their eggs. The sight was well worth the trouble of ascending the shaky ladder. They...
Стр. 36 - I have found it to depend upon the temperature of the atmosphere, and on the state of health, and the more or less frequent feeding of the animal. I have known the skin shed four or five times during the year. It is always thrown off by reversing it; so that the transparent covering of the eyes, and that of the scales also, are always found in the exuviae.
Стр. 44 - ... man had breathed his last in the folds of an enormous serpent, which they killed. They cut off the head of the snake and carried it, together with the lifeless body of their comrade, to the vessel The right...