Natural History: A Manual of Zoölogy for Schools, Colleges and the General Reader1875 - 540 pàgines |
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Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General ... Sanborn Tenney Visualització completa - 1866 |
Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General ... Sanborn Tenney Visualització completa - 1866 |
Natural History: A Manual of Zoology for Schools, Colleges, and the General ... Sanborn Tenney Visualització completa - 1869 |
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Pàgina 409 - Lepidoptera, and are generally very beautiful. hind wings lead-color ; the antennae are thread-like, and consist of numerous beaded joints, and two tapering feelers are turned over the head. It lays from sixty to ninety eggs in clusters of about twenty on a single kernel of grain. In four to six days these eggs produce little wormlike caterpillars not thicker than a hair. Each burrows in a single kernel, and devours the mealy substance, and the work of destruction goes on so unseen, that it is only...
Pàgina 9 - They terminate in the capillary vessels (qv'f— a series of extremely minute vessels, which pass over into the veins. The veins are the channels by which the blood passes back from the body into the auricles of the heart.
Pàgina 306 - India extract its fangs, and then teach it to dance. made it the emblem of the protecting divinity of the world, and sculptured it on the. sides of a globe upon the gates of their temples. By pressing this snake on the nape, the jugglers of Egypt throw it into a stiff and immovable condition, which they call turning it into a rod. It is probably the Asp of Egypt, and Asp of Cleopatra.
Pàgina 443 - Mantis, M. Carolina of authors. fore legs held up together like a pair of arms, prepared to seize any insect which may come within reach. Some of the superstitious inhabitants of Eastern countries believe that the Mantis in this attitude is engaged in devotion. The Genus Mantis contains our only species, Fig. 342. GRYLLIDES, Latr., OR CRICKET FAMILY. — This Family comprises orthoptera . F'g- 344.
Pàgina 113 - FAMILY. — This Family comprises those which have the two toes next the thumb united by a membrane as far as the last phalanx. Such are the true Phalangers of the Moluccas, which live upon trees, and, according to Cuvier...
Pàgina 385 - The skin is now suspended to the tuft, and the chrysalis to the skin ; but the chrysalis is some distance from the tuft of silk, to which it must climb in order to cling to it by the hooks of its tail. To accomplish this, it extends the rings of the body as much as possible, then, bending together two of them above those by which it is clinging to the dry skin, it catches hold of the skin higher up, at the same time letting go below ; and by repeating this process with different rings in succession,...
Pàgina 51 - Hence they are often called cloven-footed animals. Behind the hoofs and higher up are generally to be found two rudimentary toes. The two bones of the metatarsus and metacarpus are generally united into one, called the cannon. With few exceptions, the head of the males, and in many cases of the females also, is armed with horns. Excepting Camelidae, the Ruminantia have no incisors in the upper jaw, but in nearly all cases eight in the lower, which shut against a callous pad above. Between the incisors...
Pàgina 3 - Species, by the relations of individuals to one another, and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation,
Pàgina 396 - ... hind angle ; females lighter, and apparently wingless. The Genus Notodonta contains moths which in the larva state are singularly humped, and have the last pair of prop-legs prolonged in many cases, and, when at rest, elevated over the back. The Unicorn Moth, N. unicornis, Sm. Abb., expands an inch and a quarter to an inch and a half, and the fore wings are light brown, with patches of greenish white, and with wavy dark brown lines, two of which enclose a whitish space near the shoulders ; hind...
Pàgina 178 - Dendroica, formerly Sylvicola, has the bill attenuated, depressed at the base, compressed from the 'middle, bill distinctly notched, bristles short but distinct, tarsi long, the hind claw long, the wings long and pointed, the second quill usually a very little longer than the first, tail slightly rounded, and always with a white spot. More than twenty species belonging to this genus are found in the United States. By adopting the synopsis of the species as given by Baird, they may readily be defined....