... 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. The Illustrated Natural History - Page 25by John George Wood - 1863 - 810 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 428 pages
...ground fronting her body, she with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers, to the... | |
| 1835 - 428 pages
...ground fronting her body, she with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers, to the... | |
| 1835 - 428 pages
...eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by...one, and disposed in regular layers, to the number of a hundred and fifty, or sometimes nearly two hundred. The whole time spent in this part of the operation... | |
| J H Hedley - 1836 - 352 pages
...ground fronting her body, she with a spring from each flapper sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers, to the... | |
| Thomas Bell - 1838 - 62 pages
...ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers, to the... | |
| Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 pages
...ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner...than two feet. This labour I have seen performed in tl>e short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers,... | |
| 1840 - 752 pages
...sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner the whole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one,... | |
| 1840 - 906 pages
...sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner the whole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one,... | |
| Popular history - 1843 - 434 pages
...and forepart on the ground, she with a spring from each flapper sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner,...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers, to the... | |
| T B. M - 1844 - 274 pages
...gently and quickly to form a hole in the sand, which she scoops up with her hind flappers, digging to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. " This labour," says our author, " I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped,... | |
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