 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 páginas
...small pieces of flesh. It is a native of Brazil and Guiana, and sometimes measures eight or nine feet from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail.* The female brings forth one young at a time, which does not arrive at maturity till it is four years... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 páginas
...enormous size, and covered with long, black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet in length. or their honey. But should he meet with little success,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 páginas
...enormous size, and covered with long black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet in length. The food of this very singular animal consists principally... | |
 | 1833 - 606 páginas
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 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1839 - 406 páginas
...should be led to suspect that they differ ; and this suspicion is * Oss. Foss. tvp 200 140 COMMON SEAL confirmed by the authority of Cuvier himself, who,...comes out of the water, all the upper part of the body and head, together with its hind feet and tail, are of a slatey grey colour. The grey upon these... | |
 | 1976 - 880 páginas
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 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 páginas
...and covered with long black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole length of the animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet. Its food consists principally of ants, which it obtains in the following... | |
 | 1885 - 658 páginas
...Montrose, and was forwarded by the Messrs Johnston of that town to Dr Ewart. The shark measured 11 feet 6 inches from the end of the snout to the tip of the upper lobe of the tail. When the abdominal cavity was opened into, and when the liver and alimentary... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 684 páginas
...whose name alone ought to. strike terror into the souls of every beholder, were seventy-five feet long from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, and were so very snakelike in form that even solemn scientific men have given them in all seriousness the... | |
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Mammiferes, was still young : it measured two feet eight inches, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail ; and the length of this member was three and a half inches. 
