Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... nest at Walton Hall - The TOUCAN - The enormous beak and its uses— Nest of the Toucan - The SWIFT - Its nest and eggs - Its curious feet and their structure 55 CHAPTER III . BURROWING REPTILES . The REPTILES and their.
... nest at Walton Hall - The TOUCAN - The enormous beak and its uses— Nest of the Toucan - The SWIFT - Its nest and eggs - Its curious feet and their structure 55 CHAPTER III . BURROWING REPTILES . The REPTILES and their.
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... feet - Difficulty in discovering its nest - The MusQUASH or ONDATRA - Its general habits - Its burrowing powers , and extent of its tunnels - The Musquash as a builder- Form and size of its house - Mode of killing the animal by spear ...
... feet - Difficulty in discovering its nest - The MusQUASH or ONDATRA - Its general habits - Its burrowing powers , and extent of its tunnels - The Musquash as a builder- Form and size of its house - Mode of killing the animal by spear ...
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... handiwork of man to those dwellings which are constructed with feet or jaws or beaks , and which are never marred by incompetence or improved by practice . OF all the mammalia , the MOLE is entitled to B 2 UNDERGROUND RESIDENCES . 3.
... handiwork of man to those dwellings which are constructed with feet or jaws or beaks , and which are never marred by incompetence or improved by practice . OF all the mammalia , the MOLE is entitled to B 2 UNDERGROUND RESIDENCES . 3.
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... feet in length , and so terrible would be its voracity , that it would eat twenty or thirty of such snakes in the course of a day . With one grasp of its teeth and one stroke of its claws it could tear an ox asunder ; and if it should ...
... feet in length , and so terrible would be its voracity , that it would eat twenty or thirty of such snakes in the course of a day . With one grasp of its teeth and one stroke of its claws it could tear an ox asunder ; and if it should ...
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... feet in height and twenty feet in diameter , were a man to be the workman instead of the Mole . On looking over the list of burrowing mammalia , the observer cannot but be struck with the wonderful manner in which they emerge from the ...
... feet in height and twenty feet in diameter , were a man to be the workman instead of the Mole . On looking over the list of burrowing mammalia , the observer cannot but be struck with the wonderful manner in which they emerge from the ...
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abdomen animal antennæ ants attached Australia beak beautiful beetles body branch British British Museum build burrow called caterpillar cells cocoon colour combs common constructed covered crab creature crustacea curious earth Eciton eggs entomologists entrance example excavated Fairy Martin fastened feathers feeding feet female fibres flies gall garden genus grass ground grub habits hair hatched hole hollow humming birds hymenoptera ichneumon illustration inhabitants insect labour larva larvæ leaf leaves look male manner materials mentioned Mole Mole Cricket molluscs moth natives nearly nest nest-The ordinary parasitic pass peculiar pensile nests placed plentiful pupa pupal reader remarkable resemblance rock Sand Martin scarcely seen shape shell Shipworm side silken similar slender soft sometimes species specimens spider spot structure substance surface tail Tallegalla thick threads Titmouse tree tube tunnel twigs walls wasps Weaver Weaver Bird wings wonderful wood yellow young