Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the Principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, as Well as of the Chief Forms of Fossil Remains, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1866 |
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Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure ..., Volume 1 William Benjamin Carpenter Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Zoology: Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure ..., Volume 1 William Benjamin Carpenter Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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adapted Africa allied amongst animals Antelopes aquatic Asia attack Bats beak belong bill Birds body bones bony breed burrows canines carnivorous Cetacea characters chiefly clavicles claws colour common complete conformation considerable covered destitute distinct distinguished domesticated eggs Elephant Europe exist extremities feathers feed feet Fishes flight fossil furnished genus ground habits hair head herbivorous horns Horse Hyæna incisors inhabit insects known larvæ legs Lemurs length less limbs live Lizards Mammalia Mammals molar teeth mollusks Monkeys movements muscles native natural nearly neck nest Opossums organs Ornithorhyncus oviparous Pachydermata peculiar PHYSIOL placed possess prehensile present prey Quadrumana quadrupeds races Rats regard remarkable Reptiles resemblance Rodentia RUMINANTIA Ruminants side SIMIADE skin sometimes South America species structure surface tail tion toes trees tribe upper jaw usually vegetable vertebral vertebral column Vertebrata vols Whale whilst wild wings young
Populaire passages
Pagina 443 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Pagina 16 - But what our eyes have seene and hands haue touched we shall declare. There is a small Island in Lancashire called the pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by Shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees cast up there likewise ; whereon is found a certain spume or froth that in time breedeth...
Pagina 17 - ... 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...
Pagina 137 - which constitutes the hand, properly so called, is the faculty of opposing the thumb to the other fingers, so as to seize upon the most minute objects — a faculty which is carried to its highest degree of perfection in man, in whom the whole anterior extremity is free, and can be employed in prehension.
Pagina 553 - Such are the strange combinations of form and structure in the Plesiosaurus, — a genus, the remains of which, after interment for thousands of years amidst the wreck of millions of extinct inhabitants of the ancient earth, are at length recalled to light by the researches of the geologist. and submitted to our examination in nearly as perfect a state as the bones of species that are now existing upon the earth.