The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of LondonLongman, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1868 - Zoology |
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Adolias adult alæ albo anal animal B. H. Hodgson Baird base bird Blainv Blainville body Bones Brit British Museum brown Burm caudæ caudal caudal fin Cetacea Ceyx coast collection colour concavity crisso cutting-teeth Davis Strait described Diesing distinct Domestic Pig dorsal fin edge elongate female fish front genera genus Gerrard Gray Greenland grinders head hinder Hist inches Islands Keferstein Linn lower jaw male Mamm margin nearly nigris nigro nose orbit Ostéogr P. L. SCLATER pectoral pedibus PHASCOLOSOMA Plate posterior Potamochoerus premolars PSAMATHIA Pteronura Quatrefages Rallus Revis Rhyngod ridge rostro Rüppell Sclater scrofa Seal sheath side Sipunculus skeleton skin skull snout species specimen spicula spines Spitzbergen sponges subtus Supra surface Surinam Syst tail tarsi teeth toes tota total length tubercles upper canine ventral Vieill Vulpes Whale young Zool Zoological
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Page 626 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Page 228 - ... the diameter of the eye is one-fifth of the length of the head ; the...
Page 128 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 405 - seals' food' is found more plentiful in some latitudes than in others, but in all parts of the Greenland sea, from Iceland to Spitzbergen ; I have seen the sea at some places literally swarming with them. Again, in the summer in Davis's Strait I have found in their stomach remains of whatever species of small Fish happened to be just then abundant on the coast, such as the Mallotus arcticus, Salmo (various species), etc.
Page 535 - blowing," and, though purposely observing it, could never see that it ejected from its nostrils anything but the ordinary breath — a fact which might almost have been deduced from analogy. In the cold Arctic air this breath is generally condensed, and falls upon those close at hand in the form of a dense spray, which may have led seamen to suppose that this vapour wns originally ejected in the form of water.
Page 427 - It has been killed several times on the British coast ; and I suspect that it is not an unfrequent visitor to our less-frequented shores. Perhaps not a few of the "Sea-horses" and 'Sea-cows" which every now and again terrify the fishermen on the shores of the wild western Scottish lochs, and get embalmed among their folklore, may be the Walrus.
Page 427 - It has been found as far north as the Eskimo live or explorers have gone. On the western shores of Davis's Strait, it is not uncommon about Pond's, Scott's, and Home Bays, and is killed in considerable numbers by the natives. It is not now found in such numbers as it once was ; and no reasonable man who sees the slaughter to which it is subject in Spitzbergen and elsewhere can doubt that its days are numbered. It has already become extinct in several places where it was once common. Its utter extinction...
Page 567 - Sponge irregularly dichotomously branched, more or less expanded on a plane from a single base; of a dark brown colour, of a uniform, hard, horny substance; stem hard, dark brown, solid; base dilated, rather compressed, of a uniform rigid somewhat spongy texture, with a velvety surface, which is formed of an abundance of very minute, cylindrical, tortuous grooves. The branches and branchlets tapering, formed of a...
Page 425 - It became exceedingly irritated if a newspaper was shaken in its face, when it would run open-mouthed all over the deck after the perpetrator of this literary outrage. When a 'fall'* was called it would immediately run at a clumsy rate (about one and a half or two miles an hour), first into the surgeon's cabin, then into the captain's (being on a level with the quarterdeck), apparently to see if they were up, and then out again, grunting all about the deck in a most excited manner 'awuk! awuk.