The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology, Volume 20Taylor & Francis, Limited, 1847 - Botany |
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abdomen alæ Alcyonaria allied angle animal antennæ apice appear atlas Barbados beak belong bird body British Museum brown carapace carboniferous cells central cervical vertebræ chalk character Chelura Chiton Cloudy colour common convex coxæ Crustacea declivis described distinct dorsal examination feet fibres figured flavi fossil fulvous fusci genera genus Gray Hist Hodgson inches Inhab insects island larvæ Leach legs length lines Linn longior longitudinal lower M'Coy margin membrane metathorax Mont N. S. Wales nearly nervule nigræ notochord observed ossicules pair paullo pedes pinnules plants plates polypidom polyps posterior present prothorax rain P.M. remarkable resembles rounded Sandwick scutellum septum shale shell showers side skull species specimens Sphenopteris spines sporangia spots Strangford lough structure surface tarsi thorace thorax tibiæ transverse tubercles upper wing valve Ventriculidæ wedge-bone width zoophytes
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Page 416 - An endless variety of fragile and richly coloured shells not only lie empty on the sandy beaches, but are tenanted by pagurian crabs, which, in clusters, batten on every morsel of fat seaweed that has been left by the retiring waves. The coasts are fringed with living rocks of beautiful colours, and shaped like stars, flowers, bushes and other symmetrical forms.
Page 139 - The eggs are one twelfth of an inch long, and one sixteenth of an inch through the middle, but taper at each end to an obtuse point, and are of a pearl-white color. The shell is so thin and delicate that the form of the included insect can be seen before the egg is hatched, which occurs, according to Dr.
Page 420 - ... all the principal nations. No European has ever entered into free and kindly intercourse with them, without being much more impressed by their virtues than their faults. They contrast most favourably with the Chinese and the Klings in their moral characters ; and although they do not, like those pliant races, readily adapt themselves to the requirements of foreigners, in their proper sphere they arc intelligent, shrewd, active, and, when need is, laborious.
Page 141 - By repeated exertions a longitudinal rent is made in the skin of the back, and through this the included Cicada pushes its head and body, and withdraws its wings and limbs from their separate cases, and, crawling to a little distance, it leaves its empty pupa-skin, apparently entire, still fastened to the tree. At first the wing-covers and wings are very small and opake, but, being perfectly soft and flexible, they soon stretch out to their full dimensions, and in the course of a few hours the superfluous...
Page 214 - Upon further inquiry of him, he informed me he had seen them occasionally, but they were not common. I have learned from Mr. Philip Brasher, who has passed much time at that place, that speaking to the gunners about them, they said they were well known there by the name of Black Brant, and one of them mentioned that he once saw a flock of five or six together.
Page 416 - Malayan poetry, on our approach fly startled from the pools which they and the wild hog most frequent. Lively squirrels, of different species, are everywhere met with. Amongst a great variety of other remarkable animals which range the forest, we may, according to our locality, encounter herds of elephants, the rhinoceros, tigers of several sorts, the tapir, the babirusa, the orangutan, the sloth ; and, of the winged tribes, the gorgeously beautiful birds of paradise, the loris, the peacock, and...
Page 98 - The Hydroidea are met with in all seas and at great depths, as well as at the surface. The tropics, and the cold waters of the frigid zone, have their peculiar species, and a few are found in fresh waters. The rocks and common marine plants of the sea-coast, the dead or living shell, or the floating Fucus of the ocean, are often covered with these feathery corals; and, about reefs, they occasionally implant themselves upon the dead zoophyte, forming a mossy covering, taking the place of the faded...
Page 214 - ... the neck in front, and extending on the sides; belly brownish black; bill higher than broad at the base. Bill black, legs and toes black tinged with flesh color, iris dark hazel ; head black, tinged with brownish rufous adjoining the bill, with a dirty white line under the eye ; neck and fore part of the breast black ; a large white patch on the centre of the neck intermixed with black, except at the lower part, where it forms a distinct band of pure white, it is nearly two inches in width, rounding...
Page 422 - But, as nations, they have withered in the presence of the uncongenial, greedy and relentless spirit of European policy. They have been subdued by the hard and determined will of Europeans, who in general have pursued the purposes for which they have come into the Archipelago without giving any sympathy to the inhabitants. The nomadic spirit, never extinguished during all the changes which they underwent, had made them adventurous and warlike when they rose into nations. But now, long overawed and...
Page 283 - Hannes of Bruce, is the most celebrated. It is a bird of very peculiar aspect, though undistinguished by much diversity in the colours of its plumage. It stands rather more than two feet high, and measures in length, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, about two feet six inches. The bill is long and arched, about seven inches long, and considerably thicker and broader towards the base than that of the scarlet ibis.