Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, Volumen25Society, 1857 |
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London Zoological Society of London Vista de fragmentos - 1919 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 161 - ... a motion of the wings so rapid as to be almost imperceptible ; indeed the muscular power of this little creature appears to be very great in every respect, ns, independently of its rapid and sustained flight, it grasps the small twigs, flowers, &c.
Página 12 - The vastly expanded beak, with its hornlike process, in the Hornbill forms one great air-cell, with thin bony parietes ; and in this bird, in the Swifts, and the Humming-birds, every bone of the skeleton, down to the phalanges of the claws, is pneumatic.
Página 62 - Heloderma horridum, in which all the teeth are uniformly furnished with a basal cavity and foramen ; and this Lizard is said to be noxious, but the fact has not been distinctly proved.
Página 11 - An Account of certain Receptacles of Air, in Birds, which communicate with the Lungs, and are lodged both among the fleshy parts and in the hollow Bones of those Animals.
Página 271 - On the head is a large protuberance or helmet of a bright red colour, and to the neck are attached, like bells, six or eight round fleshy balls of bright blue and scarlet, which give the bird a very beautiful appearance. The first, and indeed the only, specimen of the Australian Cassowary was unfortunately lefi at Weymouth Bay, and has not been recovered.
Página 161 - Successful in keeping one alive during a long railway journey, in a gauze bag attached to his breast-button, for three days, during which it readily fed from a small bottle filled with a syrup of brown sugar and water, Mr. Gould determined to attempt the bringing of some living examples to England, in which he succeeded, but unhappily they did not long survive their arrival in London, and died on the second day : had they lived, it was his intention to have sent them to the Society's Gardens, where...
Página 270 - Novee-Hollandiee), being narrower, longer, and more curved, and in having a black and leathery cere at the base and behind the plate of the head a small tufi of black hair-like feathers, which are continued in greater or lesser abundance over most parts of the neck.
Página 57 - May, there were two eggs in the nest, and again a bird was shot, whicb turned out tb be a new female with a fully-formed egg inside, through which the bullet had passed. The skin is now in England. The birds seemed on both occasions remarkably fearless. The eggs are smoother, and, as might be expected, considerably smaller than those of the Eagle Owl. The dimensions of the two in the last-mentioned nest are 2 in. X 1'6 in.
Página 215 - Birds," for the purpose of showing the prevailing error upon the subject — namely, "that the bones of a bird are filled with air." Of fifty-two British birds recently dissected by him, only one, the sparrow-hawk (F. nesus), had the bones generally perforated for the admission of air. In thirteen others...
Página 56 - August, as it fluttered from the nest, had a general resemblance to the adult, though all the colours were more dull. The wax-like ends to the wing-feathers, the yellow tip to the tail, the black patch between the eye and the beak are all there, whilst the rich mahogany of the under...