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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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terraneous passages, or covered galleries, when necessity obliges them, and proceed from them on their devastating excursions. Like the ants, they are omnivorous; like them, at a certain time of their life, they have four wings, and then emigrate and form colonies. The termites also resemble the ants in their laborious activity, but they surpass the bees, the wasps, and the beavers, in the art of building. Each community, according to Sparmann, is composed of one male, one female, and of
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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their flight. The neuters remain alone in their habitation, and, according to M. Huber, carefully close up all its avenues. M. Huber has depicted, with a charm and interest peculiarly his own, all the details of these emigrations. After having described what occurs in relation to the turf-ants (Myrmica), the solicitude of the workers for the winged individuals, the cares which they lavish on them, the efforts which they make to retain them, and finally, the sort of farewell which they seem to
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 17.
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Many other serpents, as well as this, are partial to ants. In France, the coluber austriaca is sometimes found in the ant-hills, where it goes for the purpose of feeding on these insects, and, not improbably, to conceal itself during the winter season. This amphisb na has from two hundred and twenty to two hundred and thirty and odd rings around the body, and from sixteen to eighteen around the tail. Its length is about a foot and a half, of which the tail scarcely forms the twelfth part. The
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 3: Mammalia (3)
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, joins the fore feet to those behind, and spreads its tail over the upper side so as to cover the whole body. It is solitary in its habits, and the female brings but one at a birth, which is constantly in company with its mother, even after it is able to walk, and till it is nearly a year old. In a state of liberty, this animal subsists perhaps alto-gether on ants. To procure its food it scratches the anthills with its long nails, when the insects immediately come forth from their retreat in
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 6: Aves (1).
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observed them in the interior of the countries of Guiana in the lofty and sombre forests which cover the soil in this portion of Southern America. They live there generally speaking in small flocks and subsist chiefly on ants the quantity of which is prodigious in those hot and humid climates. There where man has been hitherto unable to exercise his destructive imprudence we may observe the admirable care with which nature has disposed all her works the harmony of their distribution the equilibrium
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 7: Aves (2).
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itself for a long time, for it will cross considerable spaces of open land, to pass from one forest to another, and it never fails to mark its arrival by its habitual cry. In spring and summer, and seldom but in these seasons, it is found on the ground, a habit which the other European woodpeckers do not possess, and which arises from its taste far ants, on which it then feeds; it awaits them on their passage, couching its long tongue in the little path which is nearest to the ant hill, and
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 11: Fossil remains.
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The fossil INSECTS, to which the name of entomolites has been given, are found either in amber or in fissile stones. The first are perfectly preserved in all their parts, and even the species may be recognised. In this substance flies have been found, tipul , ichneumons, ants, c. M. de France mentions a piece of amber, about the thickness of one's thumb, and somewhat flattish, in which twenty-eight insects were distinctly to be seen, such as ants, tipul , small coleoptera, and a curculio, not
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 13: Annelida, Crustacea, and Arachnida.
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feel inclined to refuse to this mygale the faculties which the majority of the arane des possess, and to suppose that its strength may suffice for all the purposes of its existence. It lives, according to Madlle. Merian, on ants, which escape with difficulty from its vigilance and pursuit. In failure of these it endeavours to surprise small birds in their nests, whose blood it sucks with avidity. This change of nutriment is rather different, but the appetite of the animal is equally voracious and
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 14: Insecta (1).
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and sometimes one of sufficient length. But when these animals are assembled in the same place in large bodies, when they form, like the termites and ants, innumerable legions, soon, in spite of their littleness, they will devour and cause to disappear all the organized bodies which they find deprived of life. The end of the Author of Nature in establishing such societies of insects, appears to have been to augment the energy of this active and re-active force, which maintains equilibrium
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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establishes itself along hedges and in meadows: their habits are otherwise but little different. The habitation of these ants is composed of blades of stubble, of ligneous fragments, of pebbles, and shells of small volume, and of all objects which they meet with of easy transportation; and as they often gather, for the same purpose, grains of wheat, barley, and oats, it has been believed that they laid up provisions for winter, and a period of want. Their laborious life and their foresight
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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of the masonry to disappear. When at times it is too violent it may destroy chambers, the vault of which is not yet finished. But the ants very speedily raise them again: often a complete story is finished in the space of from seven to eight hours. M. Huber has, nevertheless, seen these insects destroy chambers that were not yet covered, and distribute the materials on the last story of the habitation, after a violent north wind, which, by drying up the masonry too quickly, diminished the
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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were supposed to be in common, and where public interest is the rule of action to all the citizens. It appertained, however, only to Nature to realize this chimera, and it is only amongst insects, exempt from passions like ours, that she has established such an order of things. She has given to the ants the faculty of communicating together by the touch of their antenn . By this means, they can mutually assist each other in their labours, succour their companions in danger, find their way again
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 15: Insecta (2).
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the hand of man, if M. de Prefontaine, who accompanied him, had not informed him, that in spite of its gigantic construction, it was the work of black ants of the largest species. He proposed to conduct him, not to the ant-hill, where both of them would infallibly have been devoured, but to the road of the workers. M. Malouet did not approach within more than forty paces of the habitation of these insects. It had the form of a pyramid truncated at one-third of its height, and he estimated that
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 16: Tabular view of classification; index.
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wings of, xiv. 16 Water-scorpions, xv. 248 Wax-moth, xv. 563 White-ants, xv. 332 White-worm, what so called, xiv. 447. 480 Wimbles, xiv. 379 Winged insects, thorax of, xiv. 11 Wood-ants, xv. 464 Wood-lice, xv. 346 metamorphosis of, xiv. 82 moulting of the, xiv. 142 roll themselves in a ball, xiv. 129 what called, xv. 345 Worms, description of, xiv. 38 of flies, (improperly so called,) xiv. 84 remark of Aristotle respecting, xiv. 80 Xantholinus, xiv. 292 Xenops, lenses in the eye of, xiv. 48
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 3: Mammalia (3)
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substance forms a buckler over the forehead; a second, very large and very convex, over the shoulders; a third, similar to the preceding, on the crupper, and between these two last, several parallel and moveable bands, which give the body the faculty of bending. The tail is sometimes furnished with successive rings, * Buchanan (Travels in the Mysore, t. ii. p. 198,) assures us, that it is a true Bear, which lives on white Ants, fruit of Sorgho, c. The Translator has inspected the skull of the
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 3: Mammalia (3)
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-eaters, Are destitute of teeth; have the tongue very extensible, and subsists on Ants and Termites, properly speaking; but their body, their limbs, and tail, are covered with thick trenchant scales, disposed like tiles, and which they raise in rolling themselves up into a ball when they defend themselves from an enemy. All their feet have five toes. Their stomach is slightly divided in the middle. They have no c cum. They are found only in the ancient continent. * The Myrmecophaga Tridactyla, L
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 3: Mammalia (3)
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eyes are very small. The Monotremes are found only in New Holland, where they have been discovered since the settlement of the English there. There are two genera known. The Echidnes, (Echidna, Cuv. TACHYGLOSSUS, Illig), otherwise Spiny Ant-eaters. Their elongated muzzle, terminated by a small mouth, contain a tongue extensible, like that of the Ant-eaters and Pangolins. They live, therefore, on Ants, in the manner of these two genera. They have no teeth, but their palate is furnished with
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 6: Aves (1).
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distinguished by high legs and a short tail. There are but two or three known of America which live on ants; whence they have been united to the little tribe of Thrushes called Anteaters. Muscicapa Cristatus Pl. Enl. 373. 2. Vail. O. A. iii. 142. 1. [page] 32
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 6: Aves (1).
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on insects and principally ants. They are found in both continents. Still the species of the old continent are remarkable for the lively colours of their plumage. These are the [page] 40
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Cuvier, Georges. 1827-35. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. With additional descriptions of all the species hitherto named, and of many not before noticed, by Edward Griffith and others. 16 vols. London: Geo. B. Whittaker. vol. 9: Reptilia.
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ants. These amphisb na are oviparous.* There is one of Martinique entirely blind. (Amp. C ca. Cuv. ) The LEPOSTERNONS, Spix, are amphisben , the anterior part of whose trunk has underneath a union of some plates which interrupt the rings. They have no pores in front of the anus. Their head is short. Their muzzle a little advanced. TYPHLOPS, Schn., Have the body covered with small imbricated scales, * Amp. Flavescens, Pr. Max, 9th book. May not this be A. Vermicularis? Spix, XXV. 2. He says oculi
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