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Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt
whether it differs from his mus terrestris , which if it be , as he allows , the “ mus
agrestis capite grandi brachyuros , ” a field - mouse , with “ a large head and a
short tail ...
Linnæus seems to be in a puzzle about his mus amphibius , and to doubt
whether it differs from his mus terrestris , which if it be , as he allows , the “ mus
agrestis capite grandi brachyuros , ” a field - mouse , with “ a large head and a
short tail ...
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It is supposed to be identical with the mus minutus of Pallas , and probably the
mulot nain of F. Curier . Its head and body , two inches six lines ; its tail , two
inches five lines .-- Ed . 1 again when the business is over : but she could 52
NATURAL ...
It is supposed to be identical with the mus minutus of Pallas , and probably the
mulot nain of F. Curier . Its head and body , two inches six lines ; its tail , two
inches five lines .-- Ed . 1 again when the business is over : but she could 52
NATURAL ...
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I called to see it this summer , not knowing what to expect : but the moment I took
it in hand , I pronounced it the male garrulus bohemicus , * or German silk - tail ,
from the five peculiar crimson tags or points which it carries at the ends of five of ...
I called to see it this summer , not knowing what to expect : but the moment I took
it in hand , I pronounced it the male garrulus bohemicus , * or German silk - tail ,
from the five peculiar crimson tags or points which it carries at the ends of five of ...
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I measured them ; and found that , from nose to tail , they were just two inches
and a quarter , and their tails just two inches long . Two of them , in a scale ,
weighed down just one copper halfpenny , which is about the third of an ounce ...
I measured them ; and found that , from nose to tail , they were just two inches
and a quarter , and their tails just two inches long . Two of them , in a scale ,
weighed down just one copper halfpenny , which is about the third of an ounce ...
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... of my new mice . Linnæus perhaps would call the species mus minimus .
Diego LETTER XVI . Fans MHE history of the stone. been killed at Alton . They
are active little creatures , erecting the crest and tail , flying in a short jerking
manner ...
... of my new mice . Linnæus perhaps would call the species mus minimus .
Diego LETTER XVI . Fans MHE history of the stone. been killed at Alton . They
are active little creatures , erecting the crest and tail , flying in a short jerking
manner ...
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Seite 80 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 406 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 180 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Seite 197 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Seite 276 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Seite 156 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Seite 182 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...