Animal Biography, Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, and Economy, of the Animal Creation: Arranged According to the System of LinnaeusR. Phillips, 1805 |
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... insects , with grass and moistened bay , were put to it . During this season it was very lean and emaciated ; but in summer , when its favourite food could be had in plenty , it soon again became fat.In. the eighth winter it pined away ...
... insects , with grass and moistened bay , were put to it . During this season it was very lean and emaciated ; but in summer , when its favourite food could be had in plenty , it soon again became fat.In. the eighth winter it pined away ...
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... insects . An animal that is so generally de- tested , being so much noticed and befriended , ex- cited the curiosity ... insect stuck by the glutinous matter to its tip , and was swallowed by a motion quicker than the eye could ...
... insects . An animal that is so generally de- tested , being so much noticed and befriended , ex- cited the curiosity ... insect stuck by the glutinous matter to its tip , and was swallowed by a motion quicker than the eye could ...
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... insects . Many of them serve mankind for food . The aquatic spe- cies undergo a metamorphosis , being first in a ... Insect . Surinam , quoted in La Cepede , ii . 315 . The body is elongated , naked , and furnished with 46 THE ...
... insects . Many of them serve mankind for food . The aquatic spe- cies undergo a metamorphosis , being first in a ... Insect . Surinam , quoted in La Cepede , ii . 315 . The body is elongated , naked , and furnished with 46 THE ...
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... insects that hover about the waters it in- habits ; and the mode of taking its prey is very remarkable . When it ... insect , it shoots at it a drop of water from its tubular snout , but without showing its mouth above the surface ...
... insects that hover about the waters it in- habits ; and the mode of taking its prey is very remarkable . When it ... insect , it shoots at it a drop of water from its tubular snout , but without showing its mouth above the surface ...
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... insect called the salmon - louse * : when these are numerous the fish are esteemed in high season . Very soon after the Sal- mon have left the sea , the insects die and drop off . After the fish have become lean at the spawning- time ...
... insect called the salmon - louse * : when these are numerous the fish are esteemed in high season . Very soon after the Sal- mon have left the sea , the insects die and drop off . After the fish have become lean at the spawning- time ...
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