Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural HistoryWest, Newman, 1871 |
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abundant adult appeared April autumn Batna breeding British bustard buzzard captured coast colour common common buzzard dark desert duck dunlins EDWARD NEWMAN eggs exhibited falcon feathers February feeding feet female fieldfares flight flying frequently garden goosanders gray green sandpiper ground gulls habits head heard hooded crow immature inches insects island J. H. Gurney January June kestrel killed Laghouat large flocks large numbers lark larva larvæ Leadenhall Market Lepidoptera male March marshes migration mountains Museum naturalist neighbourhood nest Newman Norfolk Norwich noticed observed obtained occasionally occurred October ornithologists pair parrots phalarope plover plumage rare razorbills remarkable ring ouzel river rocks sandpiper seal season SECOND SERIES-VOL seen September shot side smew snipe species specimen spot summer tail thrush tree tufted duck visited wagtail warbler wild wings winter wood Yarmouth Yarrell young birds Zoologist
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Página 2799 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church.
Página 2614 - This creature, if its whole structure had been examined by a naturalist, would have been classed amongst the Quadrumana, as surely as the still more ancient progenitor of the Old and New World monkeys.
Página 2400 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Página 2632 - The live-long night : nor these alone, whose notes, Nice-fingered art must emulate in vain, But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime In still repeated circles, screaming loud, The jay, the pie, and e'en the boding owl, That hails the rising moon, have charms for me.
Página 2614 - We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.
Página 2614 - In the dim obscurity of the past we can see that the early progenitor of all the Vertebrata must have been an aquatic animal, provided with branchiae, with the two sexes united in the same individual, and with the most important organs of the body (such as the brain and heart) imperfectly developed. This animal seems to have been more like the larva; of our existing marine Ascidians than any other known form.
Página 2622 - TwAS when the world was in its prime, When the fresh stars had just begun Their race of glory, and young Time Told his first birthdays by the sun ; When, in the light of Nature's dawn Rejoicing, men and angels met...
Página 2613 - This can be effected by means of the rudiments which man still retains, by the characters which occasionally make their appearance in him through reversion, and by the aid of the principles of morphology and embryology. The various facts, to which I shall here allude, have been given in the previous chapters.
Página 2613 - ... provided with a tail, having the proper muscles. Their limbs and bodies were also acted on by many muscles which now only occasionally reappear, but are normally present in the Quadrumana.
Página 2622 - To believe that man was aboriginally civilized and then suffered utter degradation in so many regions, is to take a pitiably low view of human nature. It is apparently a truer and more cheerful view that progress has been much more general than retrogression; that man has risen, though by slow and interrupted steps, from a lowly condition to the highest standard as yet attained by him in knowledge, morals, and religion.