The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 2511926 |
Termos e frases comuns
abundant adult Alouatta Alouatta fetus animals antelope Beebe birds black-tails body breeding buck burrows caribou Citellus claws color Colorado COUNTY Prairie-dogs cysts distance eastern Colorado elephant seal extermination eyes feed feet female fetuses fur seals Guadalupe Island Guiana hair head HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN herd horns human fetus Hylochoerus inches inférieur jack rabbits Kartabo killed l'Hylochorus land Largeur maxima Larimer County later length Lobos Islands Longueur MADISON GRANT male mammals Mammals of Colorado meadow mice miles monkey Museum musk-ox neck northern observed Phacochère photographs poisoned grain proboscis prong-horns protection range reported rhinoceros River rodents sea-lions season seen side simum skins South species specimens square-lipped striped ground squirrel strychnine surface tail three-toed sloth trees upper Uruguayan Valley Weld County white-tails Wyoming ground squirrel yearling YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY young sloth ZOOLOGICA Zoological Park
Passagens mais conhecidas
Página 66 - Those who have written on this singular animal have remarked that he is in a perpetual state of pain ; that he is proverbially slow in his movements ; that he is a prisoner in space ; and that, as soon as he has consumed all the leaves of the tree upon which he had mounted, he rolls himself up in the form of a ball, and then falls to the ground. This is not the case.
Página 66 - The sloth is as much at a loss to proceed on his journey upon a smooth and level floor, as a man would be who had to walk a mile in stilts upon a line of feather beds.
Página 58 - They have little mouthes, and moove their neckes from one side to another, as though they were astonished : their chiefe desire and delight is to cleave and sticke fast unto Trees, whereunto cleaving fast, they mount up little by little, staying themselves by their long claws. Their voice is much differing from other beasts, for they sing onely in the night, and that continually from time to time, singing ever six notes, one higher than another. Sometimes the Christian men find these beasts, and...
Página 9 - By October, 1907, a large part of the cultivated lands in this district had been overrun by vast numbers of mice. The yield of hay had been reduced by one-third ; potatoes and root crops were largely destroyed ; many alfalfa fields were ruined by the mice eating the roots of the plants ; and the complete destruction of this, the chief crop in the valley, was threatened. "The height of abundance was reached in November, when it was estimated that on many large ranches there were from 8.000 to 12,000...
Página 58 - ... their houses, where also they creepe all about with their natural slownesse. I could never perceive other but that they love onely of Aire: because they ever turne their heads and mouthes toward that part where the wind bloweth most, whereby may be considered that they take most pleasure in the Aire. They bite not, nor yet can bite, having very little mouthes : they are not venemous or noyous any way, but altogether brutish, and utterly unprofitable and without commoditie yet known to men.
Página 58 - ... cleave and sticke fast unto trees, whereunto cleaving fast, they mount up little by little, staying themselves by their long claws. Their voice is much differing from other beasts, for they sing only in the night, and that continually from time to time, singing ever six notes one higher than another. Sometimes the Christian men find these beasts and bring them home to their houses, where also they creepe all about with their natural slownesse. I could never perceive other but that they love onely...
Página 57 - ... pases in a whole day. Their neckes are high and streight, and all equall like the pestle of a mortar, without making any proportion of similitude of a head, or any difference except in the noddle, and in the tops of their neckes. They have little mouthes, and moove their neckes from one side to another, as though they were astonished : their chiefe desire and delight is to cleave and sticke fast unto Trees, whereunto cleaving fast, they mount up little by little, staying themselves by their long...
Página 59 - Perico-ligero, 3 or the little light dogge ; hee hath three nailes to every hand, and mooves both hands and feete as it were by compasse, and very heavily : it is in face like to a monkie, and hath a shrill crie; it climbeth trees, and eates ants.