InvertebratesS. Hess, 1898 - Zoology |
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abdomen algæ Alligator America anal fin animal appearance attains bands beautiful belonging bite Blind-worm body bony brown called captured Chimæra coast color common covered Crocodile crustaceans curious dark dorsal fin edge eggs example extremely eyes feeds feet in length Fer-de-Lance fish fishermen flattened flesh FLYING GURNARD Frog Gecko genera genus green Green Turtle Gurnard habits head hook Iguana inches in length inhabits insects jaws known lateral line limbs living Lizard mollusks mottled mouth native nearly neck operculum pectoral fins peculiar placed poison preceding species prey Puff Adder Rattlesnake rays remarkable reptile resemblance rivers round Salamander scales seas seen Serpent Shark sharp shell shores side singular skin Skink Snake Snake-stone snout sometimes species specimen spines spots STICKLEBACK streak strong surface tail teeth throat tint Toad toes Tortoise Turtle upper venomous Viper yellow young
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Page 27 - all well,' she proceeds to form a hole in the sand, which she effects by removing it from under her body with her hind flappers, scooping it out with so much dexterity that the sides seldom if ever fall in. The sand is raised alternately with each flapper, as with a large ladle, until it has accumulated behind her, when, supporting herself with her head and...
Page 27 - ... she with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner the hole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes.
Page 138 - Whatever may be said in ridicule of fascination, it is nevertheless true, that birds, and even quadrupeds also, are, under certain circumstances, unable to retire from the presence of certain of their enemies ; and what is even more extraordinary, unable to resist the propensity to advance from a situation of actual safety into one of the most imminent danger.
Page 27 - ... had been done to it. This accomplished to her mind, she retreats to the water with all possible dispatch, leaving the hatching of the eggs to the heat of the sand. When a turtle, a loggerhead for example, is in the act of dropping her eggs, she will not move, although one should go up to her, or even seat himself on her back, for it seems...
Page 138 - Snake is generally observed with its head raised about ten or twelve inches above the branch, round which its body and tail are entwined, with its mouth open and its neck inflated as if anxiously...
Page 32 - Wilmot Horton employed men to drag for crocodiles in a pond which was infested with them in the immediate vicinity of Aripo. The pool was about 'fifty yards in length, by ten or twelve wide, shallowing gradually to the edge, and not exceeding four or five feet in the deepest part. As the party approached the bund, from twenty to thirty reptiles, which had been basking in the sun, rose and fled to the water.
Page 27 - The whole time spent in this part of the operation may be about twenty minutes. She now scrapes the loose sand back over the eggs, and so levels and smooths the surface, that few persons on seeing the spot could imagine anything had been done to it.
Page 160 - Toad be dead, with a piece of cloth of the colour of red Scarlet, wherewithal they are much delighted, so that while they stretch out themselves as it were in sport upon that cloth, they cast out the stone of their head, but instantly they sup it up again, unless it be taken from them through some secret hole in the said cloth, whereby it falleth into a cistern or vessel of water into which the Toad dareth not enter, by reason of the coldnesse of the water.
Page 73 - Gecko had been taught to come daily to the dinner-table, and always made its appearance along with the dessert The family were absent for some months, during which the house underwent extensive repairs, the roof having been raised, the walls stuccoed, and ceilings whitened.
Page 7 - Near the springs it was a curious spectacle to behold many of these huge creatures, one set eagerly travelling onwards with outstretched necks, and another set returning, after having drunk their fill.