The Illustrated Natural History: Reptiles, fishes, molluscs, etcRoutledge, Warne and Routledge, 1863 |
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... wings , which are also ornamented with an angular network of dark blackish brown . Sometimes the black is rather plentiful upon the wings , forming four or five oblique bands near the edge . It is a small creature , measuring only a few ...
... wings , which are also ornamented with an angular network of dark blackish brown . Sometimes the black is rather plentiful upon the wings , forming four or five oblique bands near the edge . It is a small creature , measuring only a few ...
Page 98
... wings , stretching their necks , and uttering hoarse cries of mingled rage and terror . The honey guide is especially fearful of this Serpent , and has often guided a man , not as he supposed , to the vicinity of a hive of wild bees ...
... wings , stretching their necks , and uttering hoarse cries of mingled rage and terror . The honey guide is especially fearful of this Serpent , and has often guided a man , not as he supposed , to the vicinity of a hive of wild bees ...
Page 103
... wings and shrieking cries , call attention to the venomous reptile . But the many descriptions of the fascinating process are too precise to allow of such a supposition in the particular instances which are mentioned . Even the common ...
... wings and shrieking cries , call attention to the venomous reptile . But the many descriptions of the fascinating process are too precise to allow of such a supposition in the particular instances which are mentioned . Even the common ...
Page 104
... wings together and flew away . The Snake was one of the harmless kind , and being taken to the house of the person who had interrupted it in its meal , served to keep the premises clear of rats and mice . The Serpent is not the only ...
... wings together and flew away . The Snake was one of the harmless kind , and being taken to the house of the person who had interrupted it in its meal , served to keep the premises clear of rats and mice . The Serpent is not the only ...
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... wings noisily , and by dint of continual annoyance will often drive the reptile away from the locality . It has been thought that this Serpent was in the habit of killing its prey by pressure , after the fashion of the boas , but this ...
... wings noisily , and by dint of continual annoyance will often drive the reptile away from the locality . It has been thought that this Serpent was in the habit of killing its prey by pressure , after the fashion of the boas , but this ...
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abdomen anal fin animal antennæ aperture appendages bands beak beautiful beetles belonging body British brown burrow called captured carapace cells cephalothorax claws coasts colour common covered crab creature crustaceans curious dark dorsal fin edge eggs elytra engraving example extremely eyes feeds feet female fish flat flattened foot footstalks Frog front furnished Genus gills green habits head horny illustration inches in length inhabitants insects jaws joint known larva larvæ lateral line limbs living Lizard male mandibles membranous molluscs mouth native nearly operculum pair of legs pectoral fins peculiar placed plates polyzoa prey proboscis remarkable represented reptile resemblance round rows sand scales seas seen Serpent shape shell short side skin slender Snake soft sometimes species specimen spider spines spots statoblast strong structure substance surface tail teeth tentacles thorax toothed tube upper wings yellow young
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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.