A761.09    Beagle Library:     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.   Text

, however, it must be observed, that there is nothing but contradiction among authors. The eggs of tortoises are more or less round according to their species, and they have a white and a yolk. Their envelope is more or less calcareous, but never so much so as that of die eggs of birds, and it is often soft. They are cooked in the same manner as those of hens, and their flavour is not inferior, though the white does not harden so easily. They are in great request in those countries in which

A761.17    Beagle Library:     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.   Text

, however, it must be observed, that there is nothing but contradiction among authors. The eggs of tortoises are more or less round according to their species, and they have a white and a yolk. Their envelope is more or less calcareous, but never so much so as that of the eggs of birds, and it is often soft. They are cooked in the same manner as those of hens, and their flavour is not inferior, though the white does not harden so easily. They are in great request in those countries in which

A761.08    Beagle Library:     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. 8: Aves (3).   Text

what they have advanced, until better founded proofs, and more recent observations, shall oblige us to reject it The Jesuit Acosta is the first who assures us that hens existed in Peru before the arrival of the Spaniards, and that they were called, in the language of the country, Talpa, and their eggs Ponta. M. Sonnini thus expresses himself on the subject: Tra [page] 17

A761.08    Beagle Library:     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. 8: Aves (3).   Text

greatest degree of skill in the art of approaching these birds. When the male wood-grous is about to leave off the singular cries which he utters during the breeding season, the females begin to make their nests. They place them on the ground, in briars, or some other covert place; this nest is inartificial, and formed of moss. The eggs seldom exceed a dozen, and are not much larger than those of hens, though of an obtuser form. Their colour is whitish-yellow, marked with great and small

A761.06    Beagle Library:     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).   Text

song is naturally sufficiently varied and agreeable. In the morning they disperse through the country in groups or by pairs according to the season. They have two young broods every year usually composed of four eggs in nests of a rude construction which they attach to the leaves of the palm tree or other trees and which they even sometimes place in granaries when they can find the means. Their attachment for their young is so great that they will pursue their ravisher striking with the beak and

A761.08    Beagle Library:     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. 8: Aves (3).   Text

clapping: then, accelerating by degrees, the strokes succeed each other with such rapidity that they produce a continuous noise like the sound of a drum. This, which nature intended as a signal of love, often becomes one of destruction, indicating to the fowler where he can find the bird. These birds lay twice a year, apparently in spring and autumn; they make their nests with leaves, on the ground, beside some dry extended trunk, or at the foot of a tree; they lay twelve or sixteen eggs, and the

A761.08    Beagle Library:     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. 8: Aves (3).   Text

distance on the ground, or on the lowest branches of trees, where they are easily caught; but, more generally, in case of a surprisal, these birds have recourse to their speed in running for security, and their starting is always preceded by a sharp cry. They construct no nests, but form a hollow at the foot of a tree, in which the female lays from ten to sixteen eggs, of a clear-green, nearly spherical, and more bulky than those of hens. They breed twice or three times a year. The name of Trumpet

A761.14    Beagle Library:     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).   Text

Method. All the means hitherto mentioned have proved either useless or insufficient. The best would doubtless be, as Rosier informs us in his Course of Agriculture, to make, for several years in succession, a general chase of those insects, and to destroy them when in their final form. For this purpose women and children might be employed. The birds of the farm-yard, such as turkies, hens, c., nocturnal birds, such as the different species of owls, c., rats, weasels, ferrets, and all their

A919.2    Beagle Library:     Richardson, John. 1829-1836. Fauna Boreali-Americana. 3 vols. London: John Murray. Volume 2.   Text   PDF

ground, but in a short time stretch out their necks to survey the intruder; and, if they are not scared by a nearer advance, soon resume their circular course, some running to the right, others to the left, meeting and crossing each other. These Partridge-dances last for a month or more, or until the hens begin to hatch. When the Sharp-tailed Grouse are put up, they rise with the usual whirring noise, and alight again, at the distance of a few hundred yards, either on the ground, or on the

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

exaggerates. PONDER L, a. Ponderal. PONDER R, va. 1. To weigh, to examine by the balance. 2. To ponder, to consider. 3. To exaggerate. PONDERAT VO, VA, a. Exaggerating, hyperbolical. PONDEROSAM NTE, ad. Attentively, carefully; with great attention. PONDEROSID D, sf. Ponderousness, weightiness. PONDER SO, SA, a. 1. Heavy, ponderous, weighty. 2. Grave, circumspect, cautious. PONED RO, RA, a. 1. Laying eggs. 2. Capable to be laid or placed. PONED RO, sm. 1. Nest, the place where hens lay their eggs. 2

A827    Beagle Library:     Seoane, Mateo. 1831. Neuman and Baretti's dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages. 5th ed. 2 vols. London: n.p. Volume 1: Spanish and English.   Text

. Enclavijar un instrumento, To put pegs in a musical instrument. ENCL NQUE, sm. One who is of a weak or feeble constitution. ENCLOCL RSE Y ENCLOQUEC RSE, vr. To cluck, to manifest a desire to hatch eggs; applied to hens. ENCOB R, vn. To cover or hatch eggs. ENCOBIJ R, va. V. Cobijar. ENCOBR DO, DA, a. Coppery; copper-coloured. ENCOBR R, va. (Ant.) V. Encubrir. ENCOCL R, vn. To be disposed to cluck; applied to fowls. ENCOG R, va. 1. To contract, to draw together, to shorten. 2. (Met.) To

A817.1    Beagle Library:     Owen, William Fitz William. 1833. Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar; performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

complete phalanx of them, offering a most motley variety of shades, from the snow-white coats of the young to the dark bilious tint of the old ones. They hailed our approach by a shrill scream, and, without stirring, shot forth a lively expression from their bright golden eyes, deeply buried in the white downy mass that enveloped them. The surface of the island was literally covered with them; some of the hens sitting on their eggs, others tenderly watching their young in their first sally from

A894.1    Beagle Library:     Webster, William Henry Bayley. 1834. Narrative of a voyage to the southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. Sloop Chanticleer. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley. Volume 1.   Text

for her young. An ostrich's egg will weigh about three pounds, its contents will fill a quart basin, and are reckoned equal to twenty-four hen's eggs. They make excellent puddings, and are by no means strong. The strike or butcher-bird is something smaller than a thrush, having a strong pointed bill, with a white band about his neck. He is the general executioner of snakes, and spikes them most adroitly on a thorn, picking their bones at his leisure and allowing their skin to hang in effigy

F1577    Periodical contribution:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.   Text   Image   PDF

from another. If the hen were obliged to hatch her own eggs, before the last was laid, the first probably would have been addled; but if each laid a few eggs, at successive periods, in different nests, and several hens, as is stated to be the case, combined together, then the eggs in one collection, would be nearly of the same age. [Under this view, each cock bird, or at least the greater number del.] If the number of eggs in one of these nests, is as I believe not greater [altered from the same

F1643    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1837. [Notes on Rhea americana and Rhea darwinii]. [Read 14 March] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 5: 35-36.   Text   Image   PDF

from 20 to 50, and, according to Azara, even 70 or 80, if each hen were obliged to hatch her own before the last was laid, the first probably would have been addled; but if each laid a few eggs at successive periods in different nests, and several hens, as is stated to be the case, combine together, then the eggs in one collection would be nearly of the same age. Mr. Burchell1 mentions that in Africa two females are believed to lay in one nest. Mr. Darwin then proceeds to notice the other species

F1574f    Pamphlet:     de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.   Text   Image   PDF

long as Pea hen. about intermediate. (In Zoolog. Garden there is hybrid of Penguin duck a variety of Muscovy with goose ) Dr Bachman regularly breeds in Carolina for his table Muscovy common ducks they are produced in full equal numbers with pure bred (just like common mules) 33 lay many eggs but never produce inter se or with parent species. The hybrids do not vary (i.e. the hens all alike cocks all alike) more than parent species. Mr. Blyth remarked only near species or varieties produce

F10.3    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832-1836. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF

weight eleven hens' eggs; so that we obtained from this one nest as much food as 297 hens' eggs would have yielded. SEPTEMBER 14TH. As the soldiers belonging to the next posta meant to return, and we should together make a party of five, and all armed, I determined not to wait* for the expected troops. After galloping some leagues, we came to a low swampy country, which extends for nearly eighty miles to the northward, as far as the Sierra Tapalguen. In some parts there were fine damp plains

F10.2    Book:     FitzRoy, R. 1839. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Proceedings of the second expedition, 1831-36, under the command of Captain Robert Fitz-Roy, R.N. London: Henry Colburn.   Text   Image   PDF

, especially over a peaty soil, its growth becomes hard and rank. In the * 'Birds' eggs are so numerous at the proper season, that eight men gathered at one place alone, in four or five days, upwards of sixty thousand eggs, and might have collected twice that number had they remained a few days longer. Vernet, MS. 1831. The want of wood on these islands would be a great inconvenience, were it not that good peat is very abundant. I have burned many tons, and found it an excellent substitute for

CUL-DAR71.192-214    Abstract:    [Undated]   43 / Audubon J `Ornithological biography' 1831   Text   Image

Vol 3 p. 15 All the terns which breed in N. parts of U. S. in regions still nearer the Pole sit closely on eggs, while the small species which breed to the S. incubate only in the night or during rainy weather. p. 381 Pelicanus fuscus. The stronger males by snapping of their beaks hard tugs heavy blows with their wings have driven away the weaker males which content themselves with less prized belles (if hens of poultry have no choice plumage of cocks wd be useless on my view) p. 477 Scolopax

F8.15    Book:     Darwin, C. R. ed. 1841. Birds Part 3 no. 5 of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. by John Gould. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. London: Smith Elder and Co.   Text   Image   PDF

hen, that she may in the course of the season lay a large number, yet the time required must be very long. Azara states,‡ that a female in a state of domestication laid seventeen eggs, each at the interval of three days one from another. If the hen were obliged to hatch her own eggs, before the last was laid, the first probably would be addled; but if each laid a few eggs at successive periods, in different nests, and several hens, as is stated to be the case, combined together, then the eggs in

F14    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

was a not full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. * Lichtenstein, however, asserts (Travels, vol. ii. p. 25) that the hens begin sitting when they have laid ten or twelve eggs; and that they continue laying, I presume, in another nest. This appears to me very improbable. He asserts that four or five hens associate for incubation with one cock, who sits only at night. [page] 9

F14    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

these is said to equal in weight eleven hens' eggs; so that we obtained from this one nest as much food as 297 hens' eggs would have given. September 14th. As the soldiers belonging to the next posta meant to return, and we should together make a party of five, and all armed, I determined not to wait for the expected troops. My host, the lieutenant, pressed me much to stop. As he had been very obliging not only providing me with food, but lending me his private horses I wanted to make him some

F14    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1845. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. 2d ed. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

that when the people hear this noise, they know that the two are together. They were at this time (October) laying their eggs. The female, where the soil is sandy, deposits them together, and covers them up with sand; but where the ground is rocky she drops them indiscriminately in any hole: Mr. Bynoe found seven placed in a fissure. The egg is white and spherical; one which I measured was seven inches and three-eighths in circumference, and therefore larger than a hen's egg. The young tortoises

A33    Book:     Combe, George. 1847. The Constitution of Man and Its Relation to External Objects. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., Longman & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., W. S. Orr & Co., London, James M'Glashan, Dublin.   Text

hens lay small eggs, and spoil the breed. Reverse the case; put a large dunghill cock to Bantam hens, and instantly they will lay larger eggs, and the chicks will be good-sized birds, and the Bantam will have nearly disappeared. Here, then, are a number of facts known to every one, or at least open to be known by every one, clearly proving the influence of the male in some animals; and as I hold [page] HEREDITARY TRANSMISSION OF QUALITIES. 48

A33    Book:     Combe, George. 1847. The Constitution of Man and Its Relation to External Objects. Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co., Longman & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., W. S. Orr & Co., London, James M'Glashan, Dublin.   Text

other as the radii of a circle. Very young hens lay small eggs; but a breeder of fowls will never set these to be hatched, because the animals produced would be feeble and imperfectly developed. He selects the largest and freshest eggs, and endeavours to rear the healthiest stock possible. A method of obtaining a greater number of One Sex, at the option of the Proprietor, in the Breeding of Live Stock. - Extracted from the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, No. I., p. 63. In the Annales de