| John Davidson Godman - Mammals - 1831 - 394 pages
...about nine inches long, being nearly of the length of the body, which measures about twelve inches from the end of the nose to the root of the tail . The powerful odour of musk renders the flesh of the musk-rat of little value, and few can eat it.... | |
| Natural history - 1834 - 306 pages
...about nine inches long, being nearly of the length of the body, which measures about twelve inches from the end of the nose to the root of the tail. The powerful odour of musk renders the flesh of the musk-rat of little value, and few can eat it The... | |
| 1841 - 524 pages
...construction ; and the Professor does not omit to notice how slight is the essential zoological character-^an additional tubercle on the last molar of the lower.... .038 Professor Owen states that this stomach may he regatded as consisting of three divisions: — 1st, a cardiac pouch, with smooth and simple parietes,... | |
| United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers - America - 1848 - 198 pages
...species of solance. I measured to-day the skin of a panther, felis. coucolor, that was 6| feet in length from the end of the nose to the root of the tail. It had been killed on the Canadian by the Kioways. I also examined some skins of the grey and white... | |
| Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1857 - 374 pages
...tragus semiorbicular. Wings large and dark brown. The fur everywhere soft, fine, and rusty brown. Length from the end of the nose to the root of the tail 2 inches. Length of the tail 1 A „ Expanse of wings 10^ „ Fam. NOCTILIONINA. Genus MYSTACINA, Gray.... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1857 - 586 pages
...in 176S to 1772. The Zerda is only about two thirds the height of an ordinary fox, and its length, from the end of the nose to the root of the tail, is aboui ten inches. Its general physiognomy is also that of the fox, but it has one peculiarity, its... | |
| Zoological Society of London - Zoology - 1870 - 1106 pages
...unhealthy circumstances to which they are subjected in captivity. The weight of the animal was 9| Ibs. It measured from the end of the nose to the root of the tail 24" ; the tail was I 7" long without the hair, or, to the end of the hairy tip, 1 !) V'. These dimensions,... | |
| Louis Guillaume Figuier - 1875 - 656 pages
...World. It almost equals the Tiger in size, strength, and bloodthirstiness. It measures nearly seven feet from the end of the nose to the root of the tail. It is not Zebra-striped like the Tiger, but spotted in the same manner as the Leopard. Its markings... | |
| Popular educator - 1880 - 852 pages
...Paraguay, Brazil, Guiana, Mexico, and the United States. The jaguar, measuring close npon seven feet from the end of the nose to the root of the tail, nearly equals the tiger in size, and its habits make it as much feared by the herds of wild animals... | |
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