Natural History: Or, Second Division of "The English Encyclopedia", 第 4 卷Charles Knight Bradbury, Evans & Company, 1867 |
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abdomen acid Amphibia animal antennæ anthers aperture apex 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 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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第379页 - ... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach...
第257页 - 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 in another, the sitting hens in a third, the clean birds in a fourth, Ac.
第257页 - In diving, its little plumeless wings are used as fins ; but on the land, as front legs. When crawling (it may be said on four legs) through the tussocks, or on the side of a grassy cliff, it moved so very quickly that it might readily have been mistaken for a quadruped. 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.
第495页 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
第265页 - I was hunting a young pointer, the dog ran in on a brood of very email partridges ; the old bird cried, fluttered, and ran tumbling along just before the dog's nose, till she had drawn him to a considerable distance, when she took wing and flew still...
第311页 - 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.
第255页 - I doubt not but if this bird had been an inhabitant of the Tiber in Ovid's days, it would have furnished him with a subject, for some beautiful and entertaining metamorphoses.
第255页 - ... an unfurled fan. They delight to sit in little peaceable communities, on the dry limbs of trees, hanging over the still waters, with their wings and tails expanded, I suppose to cool and air themselves, when at the same time they behold their images in the watery mirror.
第129页 - ... either from its not seeing them, or from its preferring the food which the mud afforded. The motions of the mandibles in this animal, when seeking its food in the mud and water, are the same as those of a duck when feeding in similar situations. After feeding, it would lie sometimes on the grassy bank, and at others partly in and partly out of the water, combing and cleaning its coat as usual with the claws of the hind feet.