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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... young- ones come forth . The Tortoises are kept in banks of earth t . THE SNAKE TORTOISE § . This animal inhabits the stagnant waters of North * La Cepede , i . 189 . + Shaw's Gen. Zool . iii . 9 . Skippon's Travels : Churchill's Coll ...
... young- ones come forth . The Tortoises are kept in banks of earth t . THE SNAKE TORTOISE § . This animal inhabits the stagnant waters of North * La Cepede , i . 189 . + Shaw's Gen. Zool . iii . 9 . Skippon's Travels : Churchill's Coll ...
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... young water - fowl , & c . which it seizes with great force , at the same time stretch- ing out its neck and hissing . Whatever it once seizes in its mouth it holds so tenaciously , that it will suffer itself to be raised up rather than ...
... young water - fowl , & c . which it seizes with great force , at the same time stretch- ing out its neck and hissing . Whatever it once seizes in its mouth it holds so tenaciously , that it will suffer itself to be raised up rather than ...
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... young Crocodiles , which they often mutilate of their limbs or tail . We are informed that , for this purpose , they frequently lurk in the bottom of Creeks along the shore , into which the Crocodiles sometimes retire backwards ...
... young Crocodiles , which they often mutilate of their limbs or tail . We are informed that , for this purpose , they frequently lurk in the bottom of Creeks along the shore , into which the Crocodiles sometimes retire backwards ...
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... young are considerably longer in attaining their complete state , this seldom taking place till November . They arrive at their full growth in about four years , and live to the age of sixteen or seventeen . They are excessively vo ...
... young are considerably longer in attaining their complete state , this seldom taking place till November . They arrive at their full growth in about four years , and live to the age of sixteen or seventeen . They are excessively vo ...
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... young Indian that he could not overtake one of them , provided it had two leaps beforehand . They carried a Bull Frog , which they had caught in a pond , into a field , and burnt its tail . The fire , and the Indian who endeavoured to ...
... young Indian that he could not overtake one of them , provided it had two leaps beforehand . They carried a Bull Frog , which they had caught in a pond , into a field , and burnt its tail . The fire , and the Indian who endeavoured to ...
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