Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volumen5John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1832 |
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... native cowry ( Cypræ a europæ`a ) antenna 162 · 618 56. Certus gibbus 162 108 Planorbis communis · 624 57 . Stratiomys furcata , female ; and head 628 of S. concinna , male 162 67 . Diópsis macrophthalma Dalman 320 - 592 CIRRI PEDES ...
... native cowry ( Cypræ a europæ`a ) antenna 162 · 618 56. Certus gibbus 162 108 Planorbis communis · 624 57 . Stratiomys furcata , female ; and head 628 of S. concinna , male 162 67 . Diópsis macrophthalma Dalman 320 - 592 CIRRI PEDES ...
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... native trees , in the forests which cover the banks of the rivers and streams which fall into the Parana and Uruguay ... natives who lived in the vicinity of the forests . The quantity used by a person who is fond of it is an ounce . The ...
... native trees , in the forests which cover the banks of the rivers and streams which fall into the Parana and Uruguay ... natives who lived in the vicinity of the forests . The quantity used by a person who is fond of it is an ounce . The ...
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... native of the shores of the Balearic Isles , will afford our first instance . * From Cuvier's Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire et à l'Anatomie des Mollusques ; the most valuable work by far in this department of natural history . In ...
... native of the shores of the Balearic Isles , will afford our first instance . * From Cuvier's Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire et à l'Anatomie des Mollusques ; the most valuable work by far in this department of natural history . In ...
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... native by Mr. Mont- agu , who took it on the coast of Devonshire , and gave a figure and description of it in the ninth volume of the Lin- nean Transactions . In the edition of Pennant's British Zoo- logy published in 1812 , there is an ...
... native by Mr. Mont- agu , who took it on the coast of Devonshire , and gave a figure and description of it in the ninth volume of the Lin- nean Transactions . In the edition of Pennant's British Zoo- logy published in 1812 , there is an ...
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... native element , knows how acute their vision is , and how much they dislike shadows in motion , or even at rest , projected from the bank . It is not necessary that the shadow should be produced by the bright sun ; full daylight will ...
... native element , knows how acute their vision is , and how much they dislike shadows in motion , or even at rest , projected from the bank . It is not necessary that the shadow should be produced by the bright sun ; full daylight will ...
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Página 419 - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, " Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...
Página 567 - Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Página 515 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Página 418 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended, and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 235 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 111 - Let vanity adorn the marble tomb With trophies, rhymes, and scutcheons of renown, In the deep dungeon of some Gothic dome, Where night and desolation ever frown. Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.
Página 677 - Resounds the living surface of the ground : Nor undelightful is the ceaseless hum, To him who muses through the woods at noon; Or drowsy shepherd, as he lies reclined, With half-shut eyes, beneath the floating shade Of willows grey, close-crowding o'er the brook.
Página 467 - Humming-bird entitles it to the first place in the list of the birds of the new world. It may truly be called the Bird of Paradise ; and had it existed in the old world, it would have claimed the title instead of the bird which has now the honour to bear it : — see it darting through the air almost as quick as thought ! — now it is within a yard of your...
Página 577 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Página 16 - Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...