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Page 321 - If these Amblyopses be not alarmed, they come to the surface to feed, and swim in full sight like white aquatic ghosts. They are then easily taken by the hand or net, if perfect silence is preserved, for they are unconscious of the presence of an enemy except through the medium of hearing. This sense is, however, evidently very acute, for at any noise they turn suddenly downward and hide beneath stones, etc., on the bottom.
Page 1 - ... and three were sent home to Paris, where a pair lived till 1822. On their death, the skin of one and the skeleton of the other were mounted for exhibition in the Paris Museum, where they still remain. Of the third specimen no record was obtainable till 1900, when, as already noticed in this journal, its skeleton was discovered by Prof. Giglioli in the museum at Florence. These three priceless specimens are the only examples of a species which became extinct in the native state previous to the...
Page 304 - some small spines beginn in the middle of the back, at the distance of 25 cm, in front of the fin, as a single line of moderate spines ; but soon another line begins on each side, so that in the beginning of the fin there are already three lines of spines. These three lines are continued over the whole rounded anterior margin of the fin, and are augmented on both sides by other small spines irregulary scattered, so that the whole number of spinelines in the middle of the fin is five.< Sehr bemerkenswerth...
Page 208 - Then to our surprise we discovered numerous deposits of dead lemmings ; in one hidden nook under a rock we pulled out a heap of over fifty. We disturbed numerous ' caches ' of twenty and thirty, and the ground was honeycombed with holes each of which contained several bodies of these little animals, a small quantity of earth being placed over them. In one hole we found the greater part of a hare hidden away. The wings of young...
Page 196 - Darwin himself says that it is highly probable the domestic dogs of the world issued from two good species of wolf (viz., C. lupus and C. latrans), and from two or three other doubtful species of wolves (namely, the European, Indian, and North African forms), from at least one or two South American canine species, from several races or species of the jackal, and perhaps from one or two more extinct species. '
Page 319 - Indiana. I do not know whether its length has ever been accurately determined, but the proprietors say that they have explored its galleries for twenty-two miles, and it is probable that its extent is equal to that of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Numerous galleries which diverge from its known courses in all directions have been left unexplored.
Page 3 - Birds," referring to two instances where species may have perished within the century without having ever come definitely under the notice of ornithologists. After stating that one Ledru accompanied an expedition dispatched by the French Government in 1796 to the West Indies, the Professor proceeds to observe that this explorer "gives a list of the birds he found in the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. He enumerates fourteen kinds of birds as having occurred to him then. Of these there is now...