Preliminary Descriptions of New Species of Pulmonata of the Galapagos Islands, Parte1The Academy, 1913 - 382 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
Abingdon Island Acad Academy's series adult male Albemarle Island Average Minimum Maximum Bank's Bay Barrington Baur Beck Bindloe birds Boobies brown cactus Cape Rose carapace Charles Island Chatham Island Clipperton Island Cocos Island color crater culmen Daphne dark Denburgh dorsal Duncan Island eggs feathers feet fore limbs front Galapagos Archipelago Galapagos Islands gular Günther height to marginals hind limbs Hood Island Iguana Cove inch female inch male Indefatigable Island Island Tortoise James Island Jervis Island John Van Denburgh July lagoon lava lizards Maximum Average Minimum measurements middle toe Minimum Maximum Average moult Narborough Narborough Island neck nest Number Sex Rows O+ O+ O+ plastron plates plumage Proc races Revilla Gigedo Islands Rothschild Rows Crest Belly seen September Sex Rows Crest Seymour shell side species specimens spots straight length TABLE OF SCALE Tagus Cove tail taken tarsus Testudo vicina Günther throat tortoises Tower Island Tropidurus Vilamil whorl young Zool
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Página 209 - Porter has described those from Charles and from the nearest island to it, namely, Hood Island, as having their shells in front thick and turned up like a Spanish saddle, whilst the tortoises from James Island are rounder, blacker, and have a better taste when cooked. M. Bibron, moreover, informs me that he has seen what he considers two distinct species of tortoise from the Galapagos, but he does not know from which islands. The specimens that I brought from three islands were young ones; and probably...
Página 210 - The tortoise is very fond of water, drinking large quantities, and wallowing in the mud. The larger islands alone possess springs, and these are always situated towards the central parts, and at a considerable height. The tortoises, therefore, which frequent the lower districts, when thirsty, are obliged to travel from a long distance. Hence broad and well-beaten paths branch off...
Página 211 - ... in one I saw killed, the fluid was quite limpid, and had only a very slightly bitter taste. The inhabitants, however, always first drink the water in the pericardium, which is described as being best.
Página 204 - ... where they have been kept eighteen months, and when killed at the expiration of that time, were found to have suffered no diminution in fatness or excellence. They carry with them a constant supply of water, in a bag at the root of the neck, which contains about two gallons; and on tasting that found in those we killed on board, it proved perfectly fresh and sweet.
Página 203 - ... hideous and disgusting as is their appearance, no animal can possibly afford a more wholesome, luscious, and delicate food than they do; the finest green turtle is no more to be compared to them, in point of excellence, than the coarsest beef is to the finest veal; and after once tasting the Galapagos tortoises, every other animal food fell greatly in our estimation.
Página 210 - Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these great monsters; one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning after having drunk their fill.
Página 206 - ... the plain of lava was not more than from fifty to a hundred feet : none had been very lately active. The entire surface of this part of the island seems to have been permeated, like a sieve, by the subterranean vapours : here and there the lava, whilst soft, has been blown into great bubbles ; and in other parts the tops of caverns similarly formed have fallen in, leaving circular pits with steep sides.
Página 197 - The creatures are the ugliest in Nature, the shell not unlike the top of an old hackney-coach, as black as jet; and so is the outside skin, but shriveled and very rough. The legs and...
Página 211 - ... the two are together. They were at this time (October) laying their eggs. The female, where the soil is sandy, deposits them together, and covers them up with sand ; but where the ground is rocky she drops them indiscriminately in any hole : Mr.
Página 207 - The day was glowing hot, and the scrambling over the rough surface and through the intricate thickets, was very fatiguing; but I was well repaid by the strange Cyclopean scene. As I was walking along I met two large tortoises, each of which must have weighed at least two hundred pounds: one was eating a piece of cactus, and as I approached, it stared at me and slowly stalked away; the other gave a deep hiss, and drew in its head. These huge reptiles, surrounded by the black lava, the leafless shrubs,...