Annals & Magazine of Natural History

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Taylor & Francis, Limited, 1854

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203 페이지 - Horses, said to be found in abundance on the seaward part of the island of St. Lorenza near Callao, mentioned in M. Bonelli's Travels in Bolivia, i. 90 & 128. I have never heard of the genus Tricheus living out of the Arctic Ocean, and should have believed that the author had mistaken the Sea Bear (Otaria Leonina) for the Sea Horse, if he did not describe "the two great white tusks projecting from the mouth on either side," and further observe, that " the tusks are of great value and form an important...
330 페이지 - ... laniaries, or more commonly canine teeth, from being well developed in the dog and other Carnivora, although they are given, likewise, to many vegetable feeders for defence or combat ; eg, Musk-deer. Molar teeth, which are adapted for mastication, have either tuberculate, or ridged, or flat summits, and usually are either surrounded by a ridge of enamel, or are traversed by similar ridges arranged in various patterns. Certain molars in the Dugong, the Mylodon, and the Zeuglodon, are so deeply...
330 페이지 - Mammalia usually consist of hard unvascular dentine, defended at the crown by an investment of enamel, and everywhere surrounded by a coat of cement. The coronal cement is of extreme tenuity in Man, Quadrumana, and...
225 페이지 - James, Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, ii. 336. Hab. In America boreali. " Rain-water puddles on the Platte river, near the Rocky Mountains" (James). This species is very briefly described by Mr. James. " In rainwater puddles," he says, " we remarked a new species of Branchiopode belonging to the genus Apus ; small crustaceous animals, which exhibit a miniature resemblance to the King or Horse-shoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) of our own sea-coast, but which are furnished with about 60 pairs of feet,...
227 페이지 - ... carapace are strongly toothed, and those of the inferior half of the carapace are very finely serrated ; these teeth are of two sets, the one much larger than the others ; the larger teeth are of a green colour, tipped at the point with dark brown ; they are about eleven in number, and between each there are two or three much smaller ones interspersed.
330 페이지 - ... which have from one hundred to one hundred and ninety teeth, yielding the maximum number in the class Mammalia. When the teeth are in excessive number, as in the Armadillos and Dolphins above cited, they are small, equal, or sub-equal, and usually of a simple conical form. In most other mammals particular teeth have special forms for special uses; thus, the front teeth, from being commonly adapted to effect the first coarse division of the food, have been called cutters or incisors ; and the...
397 페이지 - Stem 6-7 in. high, 1J in. thick, firm, •solid ; bulb not properly scaly ; veil large ; gills rounded behind, the shorter ones denticulate at the base. Smell and taste at first slight, at length disagreeable.
263 페이지 - ... others kept along the ground and dashed close by my face with the rapidity of thought, their brilliant plumage shining with an exquisite lustre in the sun-light. I waited on the spot till the evening closed, when I could hear, though no longer distinguish, the birds fighting for their perches, and on firing a shot they rose with a noise like the
231 페이지 - Geoffroy estimates the larger of the two eggs to contain 1 0-J- quarts, or the contents of nearly 6 eggs of the Ostrich, or 16 of the Cassowary, or 148 of the Hen, or 50,000 of the Humming Bird. The portions of bones of which casts were exhibited consist of the lower end of the right and left metatarsal bones and the upper end of the right fibula. These are nearly equal in size to the corresponding parts of the skeleton of the Dinornis, as the following dimensions demonstrate : — .i ,»jiif „:-.....
381 페이지 - Trans. 2nd scries, vol. v. pi. 12. Oundle, Northamptonshire, where it is rare. We have dedicated this species to that gentleman, to whom we are indebted for much valuable information relative to the stratigraphical distribution of Echinoderms in his county, and likewise for a liberal contribution of materials to aid us in the completion of these memoirs. Pentacrinus Goldfussii, Wright. PI. III. fig. 3. Diagnosis. — Calyx composed of a central pentagonal plate, five small heart-shaped pieces, and...

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