The Natural History of SecessionDerby & Miller, 1865 - 310 pages |
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Page 299 - Holbr., of the United States, which is eight and a half inches long; the head bluish black, with six straw-colored lines ; body bluish black, with five longitudinal, straw-colored lines ; tail ultramarine blue, the throat and abdomen white. The Genus Lygosoma contains the Ground Lizard, L, lateralis, D. & B., of the southern and western portions of the United States, which is four and three quarters inches long, with a short head and very long tail ; the body, tail, and legs of a bronze or chestnut...
Page 9 - They terminate in the capillary vessels (qv'f— a series of extremely minute vessels, which pass over into the veins. The veins are the channels by which the blood passes back from the body into the auricles of the heart.
Page 429 - Harr., is about half an inch long, and light yellowish-red above, with two black spots on the head, and two black stripes on the thorax and on each wing-cover; under parts black, covered with a grayish down. The Margined Cantharis, C. marginata, Olivier, is over half an inch long, wing-covers black, with a narrow gray margin.
Page 445 - Mantis, M. Carolina of authors. fore legs held up together like a pair of arms, prepared to seize any insect which may come within reach. Some of the superstitious inhabitants of Eastern countries believe that the Mantis in this attitude is engaged in devotion. The Genus Mantis contains our only species, Fig. 342. GRYLLIDES, Latr., OR CRICKET FAMILY. — This Family comprises orthoptera . F'g- 344.
Page 308 - The ancient Egyptians made it the emblem of the protecting divinity of the world, and sculptured it on the sides of a globe upon the gates of their temples. By pressing this snake on the nape, the jugglers of Egypt throw it into a stiff and immovable condition, which they call turning it into a rod. It is probably the Asp of Egypt, and Asp of Cleopatra.
Page 411 - Lepidoptera, and are generally very beautiful. hind wings lead-color ; the antennae are thread-like, and consist of numerous beaded joints, and two tapering feelers are turned over the head. It lays from sixty to ninety eggs in clusters of about twenty on a single kernel of grain. In four to six days these eggs produce little wormlike caterpillars not thicker than a hair. Each burrows in a single kernel, and devours the mealy substance, and the work of destruction goes on so unseen, that it is only...
Page 399 - ... of tufts along the back. The Genus Orgyia embraces Tussock-Moths which in the caterpillar state have long pencils of hair projecting before and behind the body. The Genus Notodonta contains moths which in the larva state are singularly humped. The Unicorn Moth, N. unicornis, Sm. Abb., expands an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half, and the fore wings are light brown, with patches of greenish white, and with wavy dark brown lines, two of which enclose a whitish space near the shoulders ;...
Page 56 - Cuvier, at the sight of man, suspend themselves by the tail, and, if gazed at steadily, at length fall to the ground ; and the Flying Phalangers of Australia, which have the skin of the flanks extended between the legs, which enables them to suspend themselves in the air and make greater leaps. The species of this family vary in size from that of a mouse to that of a cat, or larger.
Page 203 - Poll, /E. linaria, Cab., of North America, is five and a half inches long, the wing over three inches ; the color above light yellowish, each feather streaked with dark brown, the crown crimson, upper part of the breast and sides of the body tinged with light crimson ; the most of the remaining under parts white. Audubon says few birds exhibit a more affectionate disposition than this; and he enjoyed the pleasure of seeing several on a twig feeding each other by passing a seed from bill to bill,...
Page 94 - This second stomach, small and globular, seizes the food, moistens and compresses it into little pellets, which afterwards ascend to the mouth to be rechewed. The animal is at rest during this process, which lasts until all the food first taken into the paunch has been thus remasticated. The remasticated food descends directly to the third stomach, called the leaflet ; thence to the fourth, or caillette, which is the true organ of digestion, analogous to the simple stomach of Mammals generally. The...