Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine SpeciesJansen, McClurg & Company, 1876 - 342 páginas |
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abundant adipose fin altricial anal ashy Baird barbels belly bill Bill black bill stout birds black spot blackish blotches blue bluish body bones breast bright broad brown brownish carapace caudal caudal fin caudal peduncle chestnut chiefly claw color compressed Cope Coues crested crown ctenoid Cuvier dark DARTER depth digitigrade dorsal fin dorsal spines dusky elongated FAMILY feet fresh water front Genera Gill gray grayish green hind toe inches incisors Jordan Lakes lateral band lateral line length less Linnæus lower jaw mandible maxillary middle toe molars mouth naked nearly nostrils notched Ohio olivaceous olive opercle opercular orange pale pectorals plastron plates plumage primaries Rafinesque rays reddish rump scales scarcely short shorter sides silvery slender SNAKE snout species spinous stout streaked stripes SUN FISH tail feathers tarsus teeth throat tibiæ upper jaw usually ventrals vomer WARBLER whitish yellow yellowish
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Página 106 - A similar growth in universities, a similar " boom " in higher education, has taken place all over the United States for similar causes, but is perhaps more conspicuous in California than anywhere else. The successive presidents who have contributed to this development and guided its course are so well known that I need not dwell upon them here. Of the many distinguished professors, I mention only those who have most influenced my own mental development. Chief among them was, of course, my brother...
Página 74 - Primaries 10, or apparently only 9, the first being often rudimentary and displaced. Bill shorter than head, stout, compressed, decidedly notched and hooked. Rictus with bristles. Nostrils exposed, overhung by a scale, reached by the bristly frontal feathers. Tarsus scutellate ; toes soldered at base for the whole length of basal joint of middle one, which is united with the basal joint of the inner and the two basal joints of the outer ; lateral toes usually unequal. A rather small family, comprising...
Página 317 - J in head ; preopercle and mandible with large mucous pits. Dorsal beginning directly over the opercular spot, which is above base of pectoral ; spines of dor'sal very stout, the longest as long as from snout to middle of eye. Color in life dark olive-green above ; sides greenish and brassy, with blotches of pale blue and bright coppery red, the red predominating ; belly bright brassy yellow, profusely mottled with bright red ; lower jaw chiefly yellow ; iris bright red...
Página 78 - Any one United States locality of average attractiveness to birds has a bird fauna of over two hundred species, and if it be away from the seacoast, and consequently uninhabited by marine birds, about one-fourth of the species are Mnioltiltida and Fringillida together, the latter somewhat in excess of the former.
Página 74 - Jlarifront, in which this outer primary is supposed to be wanting, its presence may easily be appreciated. One of the peculiar characters of this species consists in a narrow edging of white to all the primary quills, while the primary coverts (the small feathers covering their bases, as distinguished from what are usually termed the wing coverts, which more properly belong to the forearm or secondaries) are without them. If these coverts are carefully pushed aside, two small feathers, considerably...
Página 216 - Diplenium being among the most brilliantly colored fishes known; the sexual differences are often great, the females being as a rule dull in color and more speckled or barred than the males. Most of them prefer clear running water, where they lie on the bottom concealed under stones, darting, when frightened or hungry, with great velocity, for a short distance, by a powerful movement of the fan-shaped pectorals, then stopping as suddenly. They rarely use the caudal fin in swimming, and they are seldom...
Página 69 - Bluish-ash ; crown speckled with lanceolate black marks, crowded and generally continuous on the forehead ; the latter divided lengthwise by a slight yellow line; short superciliary line and edges of eyelids yellow ; lores black, continuous with black under the eye, and this passing as a chain of black streaks down the side of the neck and prettily encircling the throat like a necklace...
Página 45 - They represent the highest grade of physiological development, as well as the most perfect physical organization of the class of birds. Their nervous irritability is great, coordinate with the rapidity of their respiration and circulation ; they consume the most oxygen, and live the fastest, of all birds. They habitually reside above the earth, in the air that surrounds it, among the plants that with them adorn it ; not on the ground, nor on
Página 88 - Fox Sparrow. Ashy above, overlaid and streaked with rusty red, which becomes bright bay on rump, tail and wings ; white below, with large arrow-shaped spots and streaks, numerous on breast ; feet stout, with long claws.
Página 267 - Stomach without appendages, appearing as a simple enlargement of the intestines. Fishes of moderate or small size, inhabiting the fresh waters of the Old World and of North America. Genera about 200 ; species nearly 1,000; excessively abundant where found, both in individuals and species, and, from their great uniformity in size, form, and coloration, constituting one of the most difficult groups in natural history in which to distinguish genera and species.