Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of Construction |
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... length enduing them with the one quality , and their muscular lightness with the other . Yet , just as the digging limbs of the mole are used for locomotion , and enable the animal to proceed at no contemptible speed ; so the running ...
... length enduing them with the one quality , and their muscular lightness with the other . Yet , just as the digging limbs of the mole are used for locomotion , and enable the animal to proceed at no contemptible speed ; so the running ...
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... length . Its general shape is round and flat- tish , and the head is peculiarly flat , giving to the animal a very remarkable aspect . The fur is greyish red , with a grizzled effect , produced by the alternate chestnut and grey colour ...
... length . Its general shape is round and flat- tish , and the head is peculiarly flat , giving to the animal a very remarkable aspect . The fur is greyish red , with a grizzled effect , produced by the alternate chestnut and grey colour ...
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... length , and is notable for the great development of its incisor teeth , which project beyond the lip ; and for the dimensions of its check- pouches , which measure about three inches in length , and extend as far as the shoulders . It ...
... length , and is notable for the great development of its incisor teeth , which project beyond the lip ; and for the dimensions of its check- pouches , which measure about three inches in length , and extend as far as the shoulders . It ...
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... length , descending in an abruptly sloping direction for some three or four feet , and then taking a sudden bend , and inclining slightly upwards . In these subterranean homes the mother Armadillo produces and nurtures her young , which ...
... length , descending in an abruptly sloping direction for some three or four feet , and then taking a sudden bend , and inclining slightly upwards . In these subterranean homes the mother Armadillo produces and nurtures her young , which ...
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... length . From twenty to thirty feet is the usual average , but burrows have been opened where the length was full fifty feet , and where the course was most annoy- ingly variable , bending and twisting about so as to tire the excavators ...
... length . From twenty to thirty feet is the usual average , but burrows have been opened where the length was full fifty feet , and where the course was most annoy- ingly variable , bending and twisting about so as to tire the excavators ...
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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