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" Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great... "
Travels in South America - Página 177
1822 - 180 páginas
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The Percy Anecdotes ...

1839 - 674 páginas
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumlier, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his...
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On the Habits and Instincts of Animals

William Swainson - 1840 - 394 páginas
...asleep, — even sometimes till they die ; and the manner in which this is done is truly wonderful : knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in a sound sleep, they generally alight near the feet, where — while the creature continues fanning with his...
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A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds: Containing Many Modern ...

James Hamilton Fennell - 1841 - 610 páginas
...been bitten by the vampire, or spectre of Guiana, which is also called the flying dog of New Spain. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites...
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The Children's Magazine and Missionary Repository, Volumen11

1848 - 800 páginas
...besmeared and surrounded with clotted blood ; and he adds, that these animals, knowing by in st "met that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, generally alight near the feet, where the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which...
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Merry's Museum, Volúmenes7-8

1845 - 398 páginas
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to...slumber, they generally alight near the feet, and, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece...
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Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom, Volumen15

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 páginas
...manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. " Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites...
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The Percy Anecdotes: Revised Edition, Volúmenes1-2

1847 - 666 páginas
...proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by iustinct, pnt-offs, my lord, auswer me presently." "Then, sir," said Dr. Andrews, " I think it lawful for y where, while the creature continnes fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he hites...
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Sketches in Natural History: History of the Mammalia ...

1849 - 440 páginas
...not stopped." Captain Stedman, who states that he was bitten, thus describes the operation : — " Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites...
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The Favourite

1854 - 428 páginas
...without feeling the least pain. He has thus described the manner in which they inflict the wound — ' knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites...
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The Guardian, Volumen5

1854 - 402 páginas
...himself weltering in congealed blood, and without feeling any pain. He says that • these animals, knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, generally alight near the feet ; where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings,...
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