The Illustrated Natural History: Reptiles, fishes, molluscs, etcRoutledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863 |
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... snake of the same country , that at a little distance it might readily be mistaken for that reptile . It is rather a small species , seldom exceeding ten inches in length . Its flesh is remarkably excellent , very tender and delicately ...
... snake of the same country , that at a little distance it might readily be mistaken for that reptile . It is rather a small species , seldom exceeding ten inches in length . Its flesh is remarkably excellent , very tender and delicately ...
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John George Wood. This remarkable reptile may almost deserve the name of the Snake Tortoise , its long flexible neck , and flat , narrow , and pointed head , having a very serpentine aspect . As its name imports , it is an inhabitant of ...
John George Wood. This remarkable reptile may almost deserve the name of the Snake Tortoise , its long flexible neck , and flat , narrow , and pointed head , having a very serpentine aspect . As its name imports , it is an inhabitant of ...
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... snake which , supposed blind , and vulgarly said to be fed by the large ants , is in this country honoured with the name of King of the Emmets . The flesh of the Amphisbæna , dried and reduced to a fine powder , is confidently ...
... snake which , supposed blind , and vulgarly said to be fed by the large ants , is in this country honoured with the name of King of the Emmets . The flesh of the Amphisbæna , dried and reduced to a fine powder , is confidently ...
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... Snake , in allusion to the very serpentine aspect of its body . This singular creature inhabits Southern Africa , and at first sight might be easily mistaken for a serpent as it crawls about the ground , its four tiny limbs being far ...
... Snake , in allusion to the very serpentine aspect of its body . This singular creature inhabits Southern Africa , and at first sight might be easily mistaken for a serpent as it crawls about the ground , its four tiny limbs being far ...
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... snake answer the same purpose , as any one may prove by taking a snake by the tail and drawing it backwards over a carpet , or by allowing itself to insinuate half of its body into a crevice in a rock or old wall , and then endeavouring ...
... snake answer the same purpose , as any one may prove by taking a snake by the tail and drawing it backwards over a carpet , or by allowing itself to insinuate half of its body into a crevice in a rock or old wall , and then endeavouring ...
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Page 366 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main; The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl...
Page 366 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 366 - Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn!
Page 80 - When in the water the animal swims with perfect ease and quickness, by a serpentine movement of its body and flattened tail, — the legs, during this time, being motionless and closely collapsed on its sides. A seaman on board sank one, with a heavy weight attached to it, thinking thus to kill it directly ; but when an hour afterwards he drew up the line, the lizard was quite active.
Page 79 - It is extremely common on all the islands throughout the group, and lives exclusively on the rocky sea-beaches, being never found, at least I never saw one, even ten yards in-shore. It is a hideous-looking creature, of a dirty black colour, stupid, and sluggish in its movements.
Page 137 - Snake is generally observed with its head raised about ten or twrelve inches above the branch, round which its body and tail are entwined, with its mouth open, and its neck inflated, as if anxiously endeavouring to increase the terror which it would almost appear it was aware would sooner or later bring within its grasp some one of the feathered group.
Page 26 - ... she with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner the hole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes.
Page 366 - Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Built up its idle door, Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more. Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea, Cast from her lap, forlorn!
Page 363 - I now laid hold of one of the tentacles with my hand, and held it firmly, so that the limb appeared as if it would be torn asunder by our united strength. I soon gave it a powerful jerk, wishing to disengage it from the rocks to which it clung so forcibly by its suckers...
Page 557 - ... a swelling appears under the jaw, and sometimes at the navel ; and, though the animal continues to graze, emaciation commences, accompanied with a peculiar flaccidity of the muscles, and this proceeds unchecked, until, perhaps months afterwards, purging comes on, and the animal, no longer able to graze, perishes in a state of extreme exhaustion.