Useful Knowledge: Volume 3. Animals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature

These fish are indebted, for their name, to the dark colour which their body generally assumes when they have attained their full growth. To the inhabitants of the Orkney Island...

There is a trade in the _skins_ of lynxes, and other animals, betwixt Russia and China. These skins constitute a thick and soft fur, and, when of pale or whitish colour, with th...

These birds are in some degree migratory; large flocks of them arriving in England from the northern regions of the Continent at the approach of winter, and returning in the spr...

It does not appear that any of the English species of woodpecker are of further use than by their subsisting on such insects as are found upon the bark, or in crevices or holes...

It deposits its eggs on the summit of the palm-tree; and the grubs that issue from these eggs subsist on the soft interior parts of the tree. They become about the size of the t...

In wide and extensive tracts of down or mountain that are appropriated to the feeding of sheep, it would be impossible for the shepherds to have any command over their flocks, w...

In the autumn and winter, partridges are generally found in coveys, as they are called, of ten or fifteen birds, consisting of the parents and their brood. They are killed, by s...

The advantages derived from the breeding of swine are very great. Their flesh, which has the appellation of _pork_, is in universal request; and is of peculiar importance in a c...

So numerous are these animals in some parts of England, where attention is paid to preserving the breed, that they become greatly injurious to the crops of all the neighbouring...

242. _The PILCHARD_ (Clupæa pilcardus) _is a fish of the herring tribe, and so nearly resembling the common herring, that the best mode of distinguishing the one from the other...

There are several birds which are sold by the London poulterers under the appellation of _plovers_. These are chiefly the GOLDEN PLOVER (_Charadrius pluvialis_), the GREY SAND-P...

227. _The BONITO_ (Scomber pelamis) _is a large species of mackrel, of thick form, with seven small distinct fins betwixt the dorsal fin and the tail, and several large scales b...

60. _The COMMON BEAR_ (Ursus arctos, Fig. 5) _is a heavy looking quadruped of large size, which has a prominent snout, a short tail, treads on the whole sole of its foot; and is...

As an article of luxury for the table the Edible frogs are in great request in France, Germany, and other countries of the Continent. They are generally caught, in the autumn, b...

By the negroes of Africa both the species of manis are much sought for, and on account, chiefly, of their _flesh_ as food. There is, however, some difficulty in procuring them,...

89. The hair of the ANGORA GOAT is long, soft, and silky, and is one of the most beautiful substances with which we are acquainted, for the manufacture of shawls, and other fine...

Both these species are in great demand for the table, the former chiefly as sauce, and the latter to eat as a relish at breakfast or with the last courses at dinner. They are an...

The _flesh_ of this kind of whale is of pale red colour, appears not much unlike coarse pork, and is not unpalatable as food. The _skin_, _intestines_, and _tendons_, are all us...

Useful and even indispensable as many of the domestic animals of this country are to us, the rein-deer is infinitely more so to the Laplander. For travelling, and the conveyance...

With the oriental princes the white _tails_ of the yak are of great value for military standards; and the use of them is very ancient. These tails are also employed, in many par...

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A. Albicore. See Thunny. Alligator, description of, and use of flesh, eggs, teeth, &c., 183 Ambergris, what it is, whence obtained, and uses, 121 Anchovy, description of, how ca...

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