A Description of Three Hundred Animals. The Entertaining Naturalist, Being Popular Descriptions, Tales and Anecdotes of More Than Five Hundred Animals ... Illustrated by Upwards of Three Hundred and Fifty ... Figures, Finely Engraved in Wood by Bewick, Harvey, Whimper, and Others. A New Edition of the Work Originally Written by Thomas Boreman , Revised, Enlarged, and Completed ... by Mrs LoudonHenry G. Bohn, 1843 - 544 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
animal appears ash-coloured beak beautiful bill bird birds of prey body breast breed brown cage called caterpillars caught claws colour common common buzzard covered creature Cuckoo curious distance domestic dusky Eagle easily tamed eggs elytra eyes Falcon feathers feed feet female lays fieldfare fish flesh fore four frequently frogs green ground habits hair hatched Hawk head hole horns horse hyæna inches inhabitants insects jaws kind Lapwing larvæ legs length Lion live male mandibles maxillæ mouth Mustela native nature nearly neck nest Nightingale Ostrich Parrot partridge Peregrine Falcon pigeon plumage pounds prey pupa quadrupeds Raven resembles rivers Rooks seen seldom shell side skin slender sometimes song soon species spots spring swallows tail talons thick throat trees tribe upper Vulture Whale wild wings winter woods yellow Yellowhammer yellowish young