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the latter present any traces of prickles on the surface of the skin. M. Lamarck, and the authors who have followed him, have rendered this name still more equivocal by including under it the holothuri , and even the sipunculi, which may be considered almost as genuine worms. M. de Blainville has restrained this name to the three orders, holothuri , echinites, and asterias; but is yet of opinion, that the name of placyrodermata, would better distinguish them, as indicating the principal

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, fruits, insects, and worms; excavates a hole to pass the winter in; couples in spring, and lays four or five eggs, resembling those of pigeons. Among the foreign species, there are many be- * Merrem has changed this name into CHERSINE. [page] 1

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We have one species of them very common in all Europe, (Anguis Fragilis, L. Lacep. II. xix. 1.) with very smooth, shining scales; silvery yellow above, blackish underneath, three black threads along the back, which change with age into divers series of points, and end by disappearing totally. Its tail is of the length of the body. This animal reaches to the size of a foot and some inches. It lives on worms and insects, and is viviparous.* These three subgenera have still an imperfect pelvis, a

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The Common Salamander, (Lacerta, Salamandra, Lin., Salam Maculosa, Laur. Lacep. II. pl. xxx.) Black, with great spots of a lively yellow; on its sides are ranges of tubercles, from which, in time of danger, oozes a bitter milky fluid, of a powerful odour, and poisonous to weak animals. This probably has given rise to the fable that the salamander can resist the flames. It remains in humid places, and retires into subterraneous holes; feeds on worms, insects and humus; receives the seed of the

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France, 5 (first) vols. 8vo., commenced in 1822. GOETZ. or rather GOEZ. GORZE (I. A. E.), pastor of Quedlimbourg, one of the principal writers on the Intestinal Worms, born 1731, died 1793. Natural History of Intestinal Worms (in German), 1 vol. 4to. Brackenberg, 1782. GOLDFUSS (G. A.), Professor at Bonn. A Manual of Zoology, 2 vols. 8vo. Nuremberg, 1820. Author of various memoirs published among those of the Academia Natur Curiosorum. GORAN (Antoine), Professor at Montpellier. Historia Piscium, 1

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. The low grounds on which these are produced are fertile in marsh miasms, and the stagnant water, which there serves for the necessities of life, abounds with the ova of insects, and with animalcula; and while one cause produces ague, the other gives rise to diseases of the digestive canal and to the generation of worms; while both combine to produce fever, dysentery, cholera morbus, c. But these evils have their attendant remedies: on the borders of the rice grounds grow the different species of

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proscribe and utterly annihilate the race, while others would rather promote their increase. If she destroys the roots and seeds which are the care of man, she destroys worms, and insects, and noxious weeds, which are alike inimical to his industry; even the heaps of earth she raises on the surface, when spread, become serviceable as manure, particularly to meadow-land. However detrimental, therefore, these animals may be, especially to gardens, it is difficult, where they are not at least

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. These animals are expert swimmers, and seldom quit the water; on shore they crawl rather than walk, occasioned by the shortness of the limbs and comparative length of the body. Nothing certain is known as to their food, but the singular resemblance of their beak to that of ducks, induces a strong probability that, like these birds, they live on worms and aquatic insects. The above description applies to the Red or Common Or-nithorynchus. Peron and Leseur have pointed out and figured a brown species

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Cetacea live. The lower jaw sustained by two osseous branches arched externally and towards the summit and totally unarmed, lodges a fleshy tongue, very thick, and envelops, when the mouth is closed, all the internal part of the upper jaw, and the corneous lamin with which it is invested. These organs do not permit the Whales to live on animals so large as their enormous size would lead us to believe. They live on small fish, but still more on worms, mollusca, and zoophytes, and it is said

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on the arrangement of synonimes, and sheltering his own dulness and ignorance under words of learned length and thundering sound. The larks which remain during the whole season in our climates retire, during considerable cold, into sheltered places, to the edge of waters which do not freeze, where they find small worms and insects, on which they feed, when they can no longer find grain for their sustenance. When the weather grows mild, they again spread themselves in the plains. They often

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to the female, and both to the young. Their song is not disagreeable, and both male and female utter a sort of sharp whistle when annoyed. They place their nest on the ground, in the midst of brambles, or tufted plants, and construct it with dry grass, c. They have but one brood annually, composed of five or seven eggs; the young do not separate from the parent until spring. Their food is worms, insects, and various grains. The Magellanic Stare (Sturnus Militaris), of which we give a figure, is

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separate from their parents to enjoy that solitude and isolation which appear to constitute the supreme happiness of the species. Their aliments are composed of larv , small worms, caterpillars, ooleoptera, and berries, which they swallow entire. The male, at various ages, the female, and the young, differ in their plumage, which has given rise to the institution of more species than are in reality in existence. [page break

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while living, than those which have been taken after death. The first are recognized by the sanguinolent juice which proceeds from the tube when pressed between the fingers; the others are light, dry, and subject to be attacked by worms. The Nandu has been sometimes called the ostrich of Magellan, also the Cheuque, Chroni, c. Although our author confines himself, like Linnaeus, to giving it the specific denomination of Struthio Rhea, yet he admits that the presence of three toes may constitute

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totally untenable hypothesis. It seems to be universally true that the bustards attach themselves to the countries in which they have been born; and such changes of place as an inclement winter and long continued snow may sometimes force them to make, cannot, with any propriety, be considered as genuine migrations. Besides the plants, grains, insects, and worms, on which the bustards are said commonly to feed, it is pretended that, though chiefly granivorous, they will eat field mice, frogs, toads

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with a sharp spur; tarsi, narrow, of moderate size, with three toes before, and a thumb scarcely touching the ground. The body of the lapwing is massive, and all the species resemble one another in their port and appearance. They live, in flocks, in humid meadows, and on the borders of rivers. Their manners are pretty analogous to those of the plovers, and, like them, they feed on worms, frog-spawn, c., and even on the germs of tender plants. The habits of the foreign species are not yet

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their periodical migrations a large portion of the globe. But they are only seen accidentally along rivers, which leads to the presumption that their aliment consists of small marine worms and insects. They breed in the North. The SEA LARKS (Alouettes de Mer), a name exceedingly improper, as tending to the confusion of two genera so widely remote, never quit the edge of waters, and especially prefer the sea-shore, although they occasionally remove to a considerable distance from it, since they

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framework of animated beings, according to the nature of their daily wants. Had this bird, says he, been destined to seek its subsistence on a dry and arid soil, then indeed its proportions would have been defective. But it usually frequents the shores of the sea, and inundated lands. There the length of its legs and neck allows it to enter, and plunge its bill into the water to draw out the worms and insects, or larv , which [page] 53

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worms and aquatic insects; little is known concerning their reproduction. These remarks apply to the common species; of the habits of the rest, little or nothing is known. The Cream-coloured Pratincole may be an inedited species, or a variety of the L. Glareola of Tem., described at page 418, distinguished by the spots on the neck. The last genus of the grall is the FLAMINGO. The Greeks called this bird Ph nicopterus, which means wings of flame, an epithet especially suitable to individuals of two

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these clamorous and voracious birds, the vultures of the sea, for they feed upon carcasses of every description, which are either floating on its surface, or cast upon its shores. They swarm upon the borders of the sea, where they seek fish, either fresh or corrupted, flesh in the same states, worms, or mollusca, all of which their stomach is capable of digesting. Spread throughout the entire globe, [page] 64

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lary bone only. Under the tooth is a gland which secretes the poison. The teeth of frogs, toads, c., are very short, and almost reduced to nothing. Almost all reptiles live on animal substances; for scarcely any, except some tortoises, feed on algae, fucus, c. Accordingly, their stomach is more capacious than that of other reptiles. Frogs, and the majority of lizards, feed on insects and worms, which they catch with their gluey tongues. The larger species of lizards, such as crocodiles

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like the snakes, with which they were for a long time classified, the muzzle advanced and furnished with plates, the tongue rather long and forked, the eye a sort of point, hardly visible through the skin, and the anus almost entirely at the extremity of the body. One lung is four times larger than the other. These are small serpents, which, on a careless glance, resemble earth-worms. Their species are to be found in the hot climates of both continents.* There are some whose head is of one

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, under a gross fleshy mass, situated at the bottom of the mouth. The sophagus is, in general, capable of great dilatation. These snakes are oviparous, and lay twice every year, viz. in the early days of spring, and towards the end of summer. Their eggs are oblong, and membranaceous, and are hatched by the heat of the sun. The nature of the aliment of these reptiles varies according to the species; but they constantly seek out living animals, insects, worms, batracians, mollusca, small fish

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Fontainbleau, where it was known under the name of aspic. It lives on small quadrupeds, mice, field-mice, lizards, frogs, toads, salamanders, young birds, and insects, such as flies, ants, cantharides, and even scorpions, according to Aristotle. It also feeds on mollusca and worms, and, like all the Ophidians, can support without any material suffering a fast of many months. In many shops of pharmacopolists it is said that vipers have been kept in easks for years without giving them any thing to eat. Like

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endowed with extraordinary suppleness, they make their way with dexterity and nimbleness on the most flexible branches, where they are, besides, steadily retained by the conformation of their toes. Notwithstanding this, they are more tranquil than the frogs, and are observed to await for entire days in the same place in expectation of their prey. The hyl feed on all kinds of worms and small insects, and during the fine weather they proceed on the leaves of trees in the woods in search of aliment

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head, and seemed to ask to be placed on a table, where it found its supper prepared, and consisting of worms, flies, beetles, and other insects. It lived in this manner six and thirty years, and finally died only in consequence of an accident. It was of an enormous size. The toads have been the subject of a great number of fables, both ancient and modern. To their glance has been attributed the power of charming both men and animals. Toads have formed an ingredient in many magical compositions