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⁂ Where no synonyme is given, the Linnæan name is the only one in use; and when the synonymes are seldom used, they are marked thus *. When no Linnæan name is given, the animal was not described by Linnæus.
“But who the various nations can declare, That plough with busy wing the peopled air? These cleave the crumbling bark for insect food, Those dip the crooked beak in kindred bloo...
8. BOOK I.THE LION is called the king of beasts, not only from his grave and majestic appearance, but from his prodigious strength. Zoologists describe him as an animal of the cat kind, d...
11. part four. On the top of the head is a small spout-hole, furnished witha valve, by which it can be closed at pleasure. A double row of pores extends beneath the body, from one extremity to the other, which on pressure exude a quantity of viscid flu...
14. BOOK VI.THESE creatures constitute a class by themselves, under the name of _Annelida_, in the works of modern naturalists. They are distinguished from the caterpillar and maggot, by un...
15. BOOK VII.THIS animal is often found adhering to rocks on the sea-shores. The common species is furnished with five rays, and is of a yellow or red colour. It has a slow progressive motio...
12. Book IV.SERPENTS are characterised by an elongated body, clothed in scales and destitute of limbs, but furnished with a tail. They move by lateral undulations of the body; and in this m...
10. BOOK III.“Nature’s strange work, vast Whales of different form, Toss up the troubled flood, and are themselves a storm; Uncouth the sight, when they in dreadful play, Discharge their nos...
13. BOOK V.WHO that sees the beauty and delicacy of pearls would imagine that they were the production of disease? Such, however, is the case, as they are either formed in the body of the...
2. BOOK II.1. BOOK I.⁂ Where no synonyme is given, the Linnæan name is the only one in use; and when the synonymes are seldom used, they are marked thus *. When no Linnæan name is given, the animal...
3. BOOK III.6. BOOK VI.4. BOOK IV.5. BOOK V.7. BOOK VII.