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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... membranaceous receptacles , parted into cancelli or small subdivisions , among which are beautifully distributed their few pulmonary blood - vessels . Many of the animals possess a high degree of reproductive 2 . AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS .
... membranaceous receptacles , parted into cancelli or small subdivisions , among which are beautifully distributed their few pulmonary blood - vessels . Many of the animals possess a high degree of reproductive 2 . AMPHIBIOUS ANIMALS .
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... vessels employed in catching these animals ; their markets being supplied with Turtle , as ours are with butchers meat . The introduction of the Turtle , as an article of luxury , into England , appears to have taken place within the ...
... vessels employed in catching these animals ; their markets being supplied with Turtle , as ours are with butchers meat . The introduction of the Turtle , as an article of luxury , into England , appears to have taken place within the ...
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... easily swallowed * . A Tree Frog was kept by a surgeon in Germany for nearly eight years . He had it in a glass vessel co- * Townson's Tracts , 113 , 114 . vered with arnet , and during the summer he fed 36 THE TREE FROG .
... easily swallowed * . A Tree Frog was kept by a surgeon in Germany for nearly eight years . He had it in a glass vessel co- * Townson's Tracts , 113 , 114 . vered with arnet , and during the summer he fed 36 THE TREE FROG .
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... vessels are yellow , as well in their trunks as in their ramifica- tions . The epidermis , or exterior skin , when sepa- rated from the other , is transparent , without any colour ; and the second skin is yellow , as well as all the ...
... vessels are yellow , as well in their trunks as in their ramifica- tions . The epidermis , or exterior skin , when sepa- rated from the other , is transparent , without any colour ; and the second skin is yellow , as well as all the ...
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... vessels * . Hasselquist says , that he never observed the Cha- mæleon assume the colour of an external object presented to its view , although he made several experiments for the purpose . He says its natural colour is an iron gray , or ...
... vessels * . Hasselquist says , that he never observed the Cha- mæleon assume the colour of an external object presented to its view , although he made several experiments for the purpose . He says its natural colour is an iron gray , or ...
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