A Description of Three Hundred Animals. The Entertaining Naturalist, Being Popular Descriptions, Tales and Anecdotes of More Than Five Hundred Animals ... Illustrated by Upwards of Three Hundred and Fifty ... Figures, Finely Engraved in Wood by Bewick, Harvey, Whimper, and Others. A New Edition of the Work Originally Written by Thomas Boreman , Revised, Enlarged, and Completed ... by Mrs LoudonHenry G. Bohn, 1843 - 544 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
animal appears ash-coloured beak beautiful beetle bill bird birds of prey body breast breed brown called caterpillar caught claws colour common covered creature Cuckoo curious deep dorsal fins dusky Eagle eggs elytra eyes Falcon feathers feed feet in length female lays fieldfare fins fish flesh flies four frequently frogs furnished green grey ground habits hair hatched head hole horns hundred inches inhabitants insects jaws kind Lapwing larva larvæ legs live mackerel male mandibles maxillæ mouth native nature nearly neck nest Nightingale o'er Ostrich oviparous pectoral fins plumage Polype pounds prey pupa quadrupeds Raven resembles rivers rocks season seen seize seldom serpent shape shell side skin slender soft sometimes song soon species spots spring swallows tail teeth thick throat trees upper Whale whole wild wings winter yellow yellowish young