 ... she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand around her, scattering it to the distance of several feet. In this manner the hole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen performed in the...  Natural history. Reptiles - Page 43by Philip Henry Gosse - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Murray - Geography - 1839 - 646 pages
...accumulated behind her, when supporting herself with her head and fore-part, on the ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand...than two feet. This labour I have seen performed in tl>e short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one, and disposed in regular layers,... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...accumulated behind her, when, supporting herself with her head and fore part on the ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand...to the distance of several feet. In this manner the whole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen... | |
 | 1840 - 752 pages
...accumulated behind her, when, supporting herself with her head and fore part on the ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand...to the distance of several feet. In this manner the whole is dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen... | |
 | T B. M - 1844 - 274 pages
...gently and quickly to form a hole in the sand, which she scoops up with her hind flappers, digging to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. " This labour," says our author, " I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...accumulated behind her, when supporfing herseif with her head and fore part on the ground fronting her body, she with a spring from each flapper sends the sand...depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two fcet. This labour I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped... | |
 | John Frost - Animal behavior - 1856 - 406 pages
...form a hole in the sand, which she effects by removing it from under her body with her hind-flappers, scooping it out with so much dexterity that the sides...eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1859 - 720 pages
...accumulated behind her, when, supporting herself with her head and fore part on the ground fronting her body, she, with a spring from each flapper, sends the sand...eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet. This labor I have seen performed in the short period of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...full stretch of her neck, and when she has reached a place fitted to her purpose, she gazes all around in silence. Finding all well, she proceeds to form...distance of several feet. In this manner the hole ia dug to the depth of eighteen inches, or sometimes more than two feet This labour I have seen performed... | |
 | Mexico - 1863 - 368 pages
...that the sides seldom, if ever, fall in. The sand is raised alternately with each flapper, as with a ladle, until it has accumulated behind her, when,...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short space of nine minutes. The eggs are then deposited one by one in regular layers to the number of one... | |
 | John George Wood - Zoology - 1863 - 830 pages
...that the sides seldom, if ever, fall in. The sand is raised alternately with each flapper as with a ladle, until it has accumulated behind her, when,...feet. This labour I have seen performed in the short space of nine minutes. The eggs are then dropped one by one and disposed in regular layers to the number... | |
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