The English Cyclopaedia, الجزء 2،المجلد 4Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans, 1867 |
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abdomen acid Amphibia animal antennæ anthers aperture appears appendages bark base bill bird Blainville body bones branches British called calyx carapace carpels cavity cells Cinchona coasts colour common compressed consists convex corolla Crustacea Cuvier dorsal drupe Europe external extremity eyes feathers feet female filaments fish flowers fossil fruit ganglia genera genus genus of Plants Gray head inches India inhabits insects known Lamarck larvæ lateral leaves length Linn Linnæus lobes male mandible membrane Milne-Edwards mouth native natural order nearly nerves nervous oblong observed Oolite operculum organs oval ovary ovate pair panicle peduncles petals placed placenta Plants belonging plumage posterior racemes remarkable resembling Rhinoceros rocks roots rounded seeds sepals shell short side slender species specimens spines stamens stem structure surface tail teeth Temminck terminal thick Titmouse toes tooth transverse trees tribe tube upper valve wings yellow young
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الصفحة 379 - ... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach...
الصفحة 225 - ... from their roosting places. This is continued for about an hour; and, on the rising of the sun, they silently descend from their perches, and the males begin to strut for the purpose of winning the admiration of their mates. If the call be given from the ground, the males in the vicinity fly towards the individual, and, whether they perceive...
الصفحة 311 - Then they would tumble one over the other into the sea, in the utmost confusion. And if we did not, at the first discharge, kill those we fired at, we generally lost them, though mortally wounded.
الصفحة 265 - ... us, settled just before the dog's nose again, and, by rolling and tumbling about, drew off his attention from her young, and thus preserved her brood a second time.
الصفحة 257 - Another day, having placed myself between a penguin (Aptenodytes demersa) and the water, I was much amused by watching its habits. It was a brave bird ; and till reaching the sea, it regularly fought and drove me backwards. Nothing less than heavy blows would have stopped him : every inch he gained he firmly kept, standing close before me erect and determined.
الصفحة 257 - ... them are continually landing, and an equal number going to sea. They are arranged, when on shore, in as compact a manner and in as regular ranks as a regiment of soldiers ; and are classed with the greatest order, the young birds being in one situation, the moulting birds...
الصفحة 55 - The tertials, as usual in this tribe, are very long, reaching nearly to the tips of the primaries ; exterior toe joined by a membrane to the middle one, as far as the first joint.
الصفحة 69 - It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably under the weight of its body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its tentacula only, a small distance from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing...
الصفحة 379 - 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 reseaches 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.
الصفحة 257 - When at sea, and fishing, it comes to the surface, for the purpose of breathing, with such a spring, and dives again so instantaneously, that I defy any one at first sight to be sure that it is not a fish leaping for sport.