item: #1 of 28 id: 11746 author: Roosevelt, Theodore title: Through the Brazilian Wilderness date: None words: 114532 flesch: 73 summary: They were good men. They were equally at home with pole and paddle, with axe and machete; and one was a good cook and others were good men around camp. keywords: afternoon; america; ants; bank; big; birds; black; blood; brazil; brazilian; camp; canoes; case; cherrie; colonel; colonel rondon; country; couple; course; day; days; deer; degrees; doctor; dogs; feet; fish; food; foot; forest; game; good; great; ground; half; head; house; indian; jaguar; kermit; kind; land; left; life; lyra; man; men; miller; minutes; morning; new; night; north; open; palm; paraguay; party; place; point; rain; ranch; rapids; red; river; rondon; run; shot; snakes; south; species; stream; time; trees; trip; unknown; water; way; white; wilderness; women; work; years cache: 11746.txt plain text: 11746.txt item: #2 of 28 id: 12296 author: Andrews, Yvette Borup title: Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China date: None words: 95666 flesch: 69 summary: The first Shan village--Priscilla and John Alden--Meng-ting--The Shan mandarin--Young priests--The market--Photographing under difficulties--Suppression of opium growing CHAPTER XXIX CAMPING ON THE NAM-TING RIVER A beautiful camp--The Dying Rabbit--Sambur hunting--Jungle fowl--Civets--Pole cats and other animals CHAPTER XXX MONKEY HUNTING Strange calls in the jungle--Our first gibbons--Relationship and habits--Langurs and baboons--A night in the jungle CHAPTER XXXI THE SHANS OF THE BURMA BORDER An unfriendly chief--Honest natives--Houses at Nam-ka--Tattooing--Shan tribe--Dress CHAPTER XXXII PRISONERS OF WAR IN BURMA Y.B.A. The mythical Ma-li-ling--Across the frontier into Burma--The _mafus_ rebel--Ma-li-pa--Captain Clive--Guarding the border--Life at Ma-li-pa CHAPTER XXXIII HUNTING PEACOCKS ON THE SALWEEN RIVER The valley at Changlung--The ferry--Peacocks--The stalker stalked--Habits of peafowls CHAPTER XXXIV THE GIBBONS OF HO-MU-SHU Climbing out of the Salween Valley--A Shan village--Ho-mu-shu--Camping on a mountain pass--Gibbons--An exciting hunt and a narrow escape--Habits of the hoolock CHAPTER XXXV TENG-YUEH: A LINK WITH CIVILIZATION Tai-ping-pu--Flying squirrels--Lisos--A bat cave--Mail--Teng-yueh--Mr. Ralph Grierson--Tibetan bear cubs CHAPTER XXXVI A BIG GAME PARADISE Gorals at Hui-yao--Deer--Splendid hunts CHAPTER XXXVII SEROW AND SAMBUR Monkeys at Hui-yao--Muntjacs--A new serow--We move camp to Wa-tien--A fine sambur CHAPTER XXXVIII LAST DAYS IN CHINA Return to Teng-yueh--Packing the specimens--Results of the Expedition--On the road to Bhamo-- For instance, our American moose, the wapiti or elk, Rocky Mountain sheep, the so-called mountain goat, and other animals are probably of Central Asian origin. keywords: afternoon; animal; beautiful; birds; burma; caldwell; camp; caravan; chapter; china; chinese; city; day; days; distance; dogs; expedition; feet; find; forest; good; goral; grass; ground; half; heller; hill; hour; house; hunters; hunting; jungle; left; life; long; mammals; man; men; miles; morning; mountain; natives; new; night; o'clock; open; place; province; red; rice; river; road; rock; saw; serow; shot; snow; soldiers; species; temple; tiger; time; trail; traps; trees; valley; village; water; way; white; women; work; yards; yün cache: 12296.txt plain text: 12296.txt item: #3 of 28 id: 18298 author: Garnett, Thomas title: Essays in Natural History and Agriculture date: None words: 67968 flesch: 60 summary: Let the upper proprietors of Salmon rivers bestir themselves so to amend the law as to give them a chance of having a supply of Salmon when they are in season. Third.--Conservators should be allowed to go into all wheel-races, wheel-houses and tail-goits, and also upon all lands on the banks of Salmon rivers, as well as inspect all cruives, weirs, &c., without being deemed guilty of trespass. keywords: acre; birds; bushels; close; cotton; crop; day; doubt; experiment; field; fish; fisheries; good; guano; ice; know; land; manure; nest; opinion; ought; ova; place; present; proprietors; ribble; river; salmon; salmon rivers; season; seen; smolts; spawning; spring; state; subject; time; trout; water; wheat; year cache: 18298.txt plain text: 18298.txt item: #4 of 28 id: 1901 author: Long, William J. (William Joseph) title: Secrets of the Woods date: None words: 43320 flesch: 80 summary: When the autumn woods are busy places, and wings flutter and little feet go pattering everywhere after winter supplies, he also begins garnering, remembering the hungry days of last winter. A rustle of little feet on leaves, a faint kwit-kwit with a question in it, and he is gone. keywords: away; bank; big; buck; day; days; deer; eyes; feet; find; fish; good; ground; grouse; head; hiding; keeonekh; leaves; log; long; meeko; moment; otter; place; snow; squirrel; time; trail; tree; watching; water; wild; wilderness; winter; woods cache: 1901.txt plain text: 1901.txt item: #5 of 28 id: 20750 author: Linnean Society of London title: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology date: None words: 78247 flesch: 72 summary: 305. 1. SCIARA SELECTA, n. s. _Mas_. 3. CULEX SCUTELLARIS, n. s. _Mas_. keywords: abdomen; abdomine; alis; antennis; antennæ; apex; apice; aru; basal; base; basi; beneath; black; blackish; body; border; brown; capite; celebes; cinereis; cinereous; clypeus; costa; dark; eyes; fabr; face; fam; female; femora; ferruginous; foem; fore; fusco; gen; hab; half; halteres; head; hind; hyaline; joint; legs; length; lines; long; mandibles; margin; mas; metathorax; middle; niger; nigra; nigris; pair; pale; pectus; pedibus; petiole; piceous; posterior; præbrachial; pubescence; punctured; rufo; scutellum; second; segments; shining; sides; silvery; slender; smooth; species; spot; straight; stripes; tarsi; tawny; testaceous; thorace; thorax; thorax black; tibiæ; tips; transverse; vein; walk; white; whitish; wings; yellow; | | cache: 20750.txt plain text: 20750.txt item: #6 of 28 id: 25815 author: Kotzebue, Otto von title: A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 date: None words: 66241 flesch: 62 summary: The only _Elater_ belongs to a species (_Agrypnus N._) in which we reckon various specimens found only in the Old World, such as _Elater tomentosus_, _fuscipes_, _senegalensis_, &c.; beetles which have two deep furrows in the lower part of the neck-shield, to receive the feelers, and which go in search of their food at night. When the sea was a little agitated on the Brazilian coast, we frequently saw the large sea-bladder floating on the surface; here we also caught with our net a new species of small _Hyaloea_, and of the fin-footed _ keywords: america; animals; bay; black; california; captain; coast; cook; country; day; distance; east; english; european; feet; form; francisco; good; half; harbour; having; high; indians; inhabitants; islanders; islands; kamtschatka; karemaku; kinds; king; latitude; left; length; longitude; man; men; miles; mission; mountains; new; night; nomahanna; north; number; people; place; point; present; round; sandwich; sea; ship; shore; south; species; tameamea; time; vessel; voyage; water; west; wind; year cache: 25815.txt plain text: 25815.txt item: #7 of 28 id: 27463 author: Ghosh, Sarath Kumar title: The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two date: None words: 37441 flesch: 88 summary: Now you will understand that if that one gap is big enough for the _largest_ elephant to go through, it is of course big enough for _all_ the elephants to go through. Because quarrelsome herds kill or injure other wild elephants with whom they fight. keywords: animals; cat; cubs; deer; elephant; ground; herd; jungle; leopard; lion; man; men; mukna; prey; tiger; time cache: 27463.txt plain text: 27463.txt item: #8 of 28 id: 28077 author: Johonnot, James title: Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors: For Young Folks date: None words: 21636 flesch: 98 summary: At the end of that time the eggs hatch out into little chicks. And what does he say, little girl, little boy? 'Oh, the world's running over with joy! keywords: day; eggs; fly; good; head; hen; home; illustration; legs; lesson; look; mother; mouse; nest; paw; tail; time; water; way; white cache: 28077.txt plain text: 28077.txt item: #9 of 28 id: 29024 author: Andrews, Roy Chapman title: Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' date: None words: 78308 flesch: 77 summary: Already a score of tents dotted the hillside, and _argul_ fires were smoking in the doorways. There were no fresh signs of marmots, hares, or other animals along the river, and I began to suspect what eventually proved to be true, viz., that the valley was a favorite winter camping ground for Mongols, and that all the game had been killed or driven far away. keywords: animal; antelope; camp; car; china; chinese; city; coltman; day; days; desert; dozen; far; feet; grass; great; ground; half; harry; head; hill; hour; hunting; khan; lama; later; left; life; little; long; man; men; miles; mongol; mongolia; morning; motor; mountain; night; north; peking; plains; pony; ram; ridge; rifle; river; road; saw; second; sheep; shot; summit; time; trail; urga; valley; wapiti; way; work; yards; yellow; yvette cache: 29024.txt plain text: 29024.txt item: #10 of 28 id: 34094 author: Various title: Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 1919 date: None words: 4479 flesch: 72 summary: _Naineris longa_ Moore? _ Claremont. keywords: cells; claremont; dorsal; fig; figs; gill; nerve; proboscis; radial; section; tissue cache: 34094.txt plain text: 34094.txt item: #11 of 28 id: 37632 author: Various title: Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 4, December 1919 date: None words: 7915 flesch: 71 summary: The ganglia of _Nucula_ are easily studied in section. 6. Section through the body of _Nucula_ showing the position of the cerebro-pleural ganglion cut through the center. keywords: antennæ; dicranoptycha; disk; dorsal; fig; ganglia; ganglion; legs; lobes; mass; nest; nucula; segment; species; wasp cache: 37632.txt plain text: 37632.txt item: #12 of 28 id: 38015 author: Agricola, Georg title: De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 date: None words: 323552 flesch: 72 summary: The feathery vitriol is soft and fine and hair-like, and _melanteria_ has the appearance of wool and it has a similarity to salt; all these are rare and light; _sory_, _chalcitis_, and _misy_ have the following relations. All these native varieties have the odour of lightning (brimstone), but _sory_ is the most powerful. keywords: = xxvii=; acid; agricola; air; alloy; alum; ancient; antimony; aqua; ashes; assay; assaying; author; axle; b.c; bar; bars; beams; bellows; black; blast; board; book; box; cadmia; cakes; case; centumpondium; century; chain; charcoal; colour; concentrates; contains; copper; copper ore; cord; cross; crucible; cupellation; cut; day; deep; depth; description; digits; distance; doubt; drum; dry; earth; end; ends; fall; fastened; fathoms; feet; fine; fire; flows; following; foot; forehearth; fourth; furnace; german; glass; gold; gold ore; good; greek; half; half feet; hand; handle; head; heat; high; hole; illustration; iron; iron ore; juices; kind; latin; lead; lead ore; left; length; libra; liquation; litharge; little; long; lute; making; manner; master; material; means; meer; men; mention; metal; metallica; method; middle; minerals; mines; mining; mountain; mouth; note; number; open; order; ore; ores; origin; owners; page; palms; particles; parting; parts; pieces; pipe; place; plates; pliny; point; portion; pots; powder; process; pyrites; quicksilver; reason; refining; remains; right; rock; rod; roman; round; salt; saltpetre; sand; second; set; shaft; short; sides; sieve; silver; silver ore; slags; smelting; space; stone; strake; subject; substance; sulphur; term; thick; things; time; tin; transverse; tub; tunnel; turn; uncia; upper; use; vein; vena; vitriol; wall; washing; water; way; weight; wheel; white; wood; work; zinc cache: 38015.txt plain text: 38015.txt item: #13 of 28 id: 40362 author: Lindsay, B. title: Stories of the Universe: Animal Life date: None words: 45021 flesch: 70 summary: So far, however, we have not explained _how_ animals adapt themselves to circumstances; we have only pointed out the fact that they do so. Now this is what zoologists have been doing with the animal kingdom from the earliest days of science; trying to recognise each distinct kind of animal form, and to give it a name of its own. keywords: adult; animal; body; case; cavity; cells; classification; colour; common; creature; english; fact; fig; fish; fishes; form; gills; group; illustration; insects; larva; life; man; means; mouth; present; sea; shell; size; skin; sponge; structure; surface; teeth; time; vertebrates; water; way; work; world; worms cache: 40362.txt plain text: 40362.txt item: #14 of 28 id: 41357 author: Balfour, Francis M. (Francis Maitland) title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs date: None words: 348040 flesch: 67 summary: _y._ cells left behind on the separation of the external skin from the spinal cord. We have had opportunities of examining the structure of the tail of _Ceratodus_ and _Protopterus_ in dissected specimens in the Cambridge Museum. keywords: account; adult; alimentary; anterior; appearance; arches; blastoderm; bodies; body; brain; canal; case; cavity; cells; changes; close; columnar cells; condition; cord; described; development; distinct; division; dorsal; duct; egg; elasmobranchii; embryo; embryonic; end; epiblast; epithelium; fact; fig; figs; fin; footnote; form; formation; germinal; groove; growth; head; hypoblast; kidney; layer cells; layers; line; longitudinal; mass; medullary; membrane; mesoblast; mesoblast cells; muscle; müllerian; nerve; neural; notochord; nuclei; nucleus; number; observations; opening; organs; origin; ova; ovum; parts; period; plate; point; portion; position; posterior; present; processes; protoplasm; region; roots; second; section; segmental; segmental duct; segmentation; segments; series; shewn; size; spinal; stage; streak; structure; surface; system; tail; time; tissue cells; transverse; ventral; vertebral; vertebrates; vesicle; view; vol; wall; way; wolffian; wolffian duct; yolk; yolk cells cache: 41357.txt plain text: 41357.txt item: #15 of 28 id: 45018 author: Balfour, Francis M. (Francis Maitland) title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata date: None words: 222497 flesch: 71 summary: _c._ _c._ keywords: adult; alimentary; anterior; anus; appearance; appendages; archiv; blastoderm; blastopore; body; cases; cavity; cells; changes; ciliated; des; development; die; disc; division; dorsal; egg; embryo; embryonic; epiblast; etc; fig; form; formation; free; general; history; hypoblast; inner; invagination; larva; layer; like; lobe; long; mass; membrane; mesenteron; mesoblast; mesoblast cells; metamorphosis; metschnikoff; mouth; müller; nauplius; nucleus; number; observations; oesophagus; oral; organs; origin; ova; ovum; pair; parts; period; place; pole; posterior; present; primitive; process; protoplasm; region; ring; rise; sack; second; section; segmentation; segments; series; shell; shewn; small; stage; surface; system; tentacles; time; type; ventral; vesicle; vide; view; vol; water; wiss; yolk; yolk cells; zeit; zool; zur cache: 45018.txt plain text: 45018.txt item: #16 of 28 id: 45019 author: Balfour, Francis M. (Francis Maitland) title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata date: None words: 295169 flesch: 69 summary: (After Coste.) _a._ edge of germinal disc; _b._ vertical furrow; _c._ _c._ keywords: adult; alimentary; allantois; amphibia; anat; anterior; appears; arch; arches; area; auditory; blastoderm; blastopore; body; body cavity; brain; branchial; canal; cartilage; cavity; cells; changes; chick; continuous; cord; day; des; development; die; dorsal; duct; elasmobranchii; embryo; embryonic; end; epiblast; epithelium; excretory; external; eye; fact; fig; form; formation; general; generative; groove; head; heart; hypoblast; inner; larva; layer; lens; like; line; longitudinal; mammalia; medullary; membrane; mesoblast; mouth; nerve; neural; notochord; opening; optic; organs; origin; outer; parts; placenta; plate; portion; posterior; present; primitive; process; processes; region; rise; sack; section; segmental; segmentation; shewn; spinal; stage; streak; structure; surface; system; tail; teleostei; time; tissue; tract; trunk; tube; types; vascular; vein; ventral; vertebral; vesicle; view; vol; wall; wolffian; yolk cache: 45019.txt plain text: 45019.txt item: #17 of 28 id: 45597 author: Various title: Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 1919 date: None words: 15407 flesch: 71 summary: _All subscriptions should be forwarded to_ Messrs. Dulau & Co., Ltd. 37 Soho Square, London, W., England ====================================================================== GRIFFITH Incubators [Illustration] A simple, well constructed bacteriological incubator ====================================================================== GAGE--The Microscope An Introduction to Microscopic Methods and to Histology By SIMON H. GAGE. Twelfth Edition. Whole and fractional parts of numbers: 1-2/3 VOLUME ELEVEN NUMBER ONE =============================================================== JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY MARCH, 1919 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY POMONA COLLEGE DEPARTMENT _of_ ZOOLOGY CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA, U. S. A. =============================================================== CONTENTS Page New Polychaetous Annelids from Laguna Beach, Cal.--_Ralph V. Chamberlin_ 1 The Nervous System of Cæcum Californicum--_W. A. Hilton_ 24 Amphipods from Laguna Beach 26 =============================================================== Entered Claremont, Cal., Post-Office Oct. 1, 1910, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 Journal of Entomology and Zoology EDITED BY POMONA COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY _ keywords: = =; body; branchiæ; form; length; median; middle; nov; prostomium; region; segments; slender; type; y. = cache: 45597.txt plain text: 45597.txt item: #18 of 28 id: 46362 author: Balfour, Francis M. (Francis Maitland) title: The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 4 (of 4) Plates date: None words: 26423 flesch: 79 summary: _w._ _y._ cells left behind on the separation of the external skin from the spinal cord. keywords: blastoderm; body; brain; cavity; cells; duct; embryo; fig; figs; groove; head; longitudinal; nerve; ocul; plate; posterior; region; section; shews; stage; yolk; zeiss cache: 46362.txt plain text: 46362.txt item: #19 of 28 id: 46614 author: Jordan, David Starr title: A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2) date: None words: 184214 flesch: 67 summary: Teeth of numerous species of _Psammodus_ and _ Still others, known as _anadromous_ fishes, feed and mature in the sea, but ascend the rivers as the impulse of reproduction grows strong. keywords: account; adult; agassiz; air; america; animals; atlantic; bass; black; bladder; blood; body; bones; bony fishes; brain; california; cases; cavity; cells; chapter; character; class; coast; common; conditions; connection; cranium; dean; development; devonian; dipnoans; distribution; dorsal; eggs; elements; end; evidence; external; eye; fact; families; family; fauna; fig; fin; fins; fishes; fold; food; forms; fossil fishes; function; genera; genus; gill; girdle; group; günther; hand; head; illustration; isthmus; japan; jaw; jaws; lake; lampreys; lateral; length; life; like; limbs; line; linnæus; living; lung; male; marine; means; median; mediterranean; mouth; natural; nature; new; north; northern; number; order; organs; origin; pacific; parts; pectoral; period; place; plates; presence; present; primitive; process; professor; range; rays; red; regard; region; river; river fishes; rocks; salmon; sand; scales; sea; sea fishes; seas; series; sharks; shore fishes; shoulder; sides; size; skeleton; skin; skull; spawning; specialized; species; spines; stage; stream; structure; study; surface; system; tail; teeth; time; tropical; trout; true; type; upper; use; ventral; vertebrates; vertebræ; view; water fishes; water species; waters; way; west; woodward; work; young cache: 46614.txt plain text: 46614.txt item: #20 of 28 id: 48031 author: Various title: Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 06, No. 4, December 1914 date: None words: 12998 flesch: 75 summary: The Comstock Publishing Company Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N. 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Address ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1900 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. =================================================================== CLASS WORK MATERIAL CAN BE PROCURED AT ANY TIME OF THE YEAR FROM C. S. BRIMLEY, Zoologist 1135 Newberne Avenue RALEIGH, N. C., U. S. A. Twenty-one years' experience Price List on Application =================================================================== To Entomologists I can supply Entomologists with all orders of insects from all parts of the world, as I am continually receiving fresh consignments from my own collectors. keywords: = =; = aurichalcite=; = beryl=; = betafite=; = class; = comstock; = hopeite=; = magnetite=; = neptunite=; = nova; = pomona; = reinite=; = rhodesia=; = riley; = stibnite=; = tourmaline=; = willemite=; a. =; application =; california =; france =; length; louis =; work; y. = cache: 48101.txt plain text: 48101.txt item: #22 of 28 id: 48122 author: Various title: Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 3, September 1917 date: None words: 8661 flesch: 84 summary: Ross-Gould, 1027A Olive Street, St. Louis. Ross-Gould Mailing Lists St. Louis =================================================================== Pomona College Located in one of the most healthful and beautiful parts of the west coast. Address ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 1900 Race Street, Philadelphia, Pa. =================================================================== CLASS WORK MATERIAL CAN BE PROCURED AT ANY TIME OF THE YEAR FROM C. S. BRIMLEY, Zoologist 1135 Newberne Avenue RALEIGH, N. C., U. S. A. Twenty-one years' experience Price List on Application =================================================================== To Entomologists I can supply Entomologists with all orders of insects from all parts of the world, as I am continually receiving fresh consignments from my own collectors. keywords: = =; andrena; april; baker; bray; cal; california; californicus; ckll; claremont; conr; cpr; det; fig; mountains; n. ckll; osmia; sby; shell; v. fig; vier; white; y. = cache: 48122.txt plain text: 48122.txt item: #23 of 28 id: 48196 author: Ingersoll, Ernest title: Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 date: None words: 99833 flesch: 61 summary: All frogs and toads are flesh eaters, mainly of worms and insects and larval or small water animals; but the big species, such as the bullfrog, may seize prey of considerable size as it comes within reach, such as young ducklings. By pulling up the weeds gently, you may get small species that otherwise easily escape your dipper or net. keywords: africa; air; american; animals; big; birds; black; body; brown; cases; central; chapter; class; coast; color; common; consists; country; creatures; deep; eastern; eggs; europe; exist; eyes; fact; families; family; feet; fishes; food; form; genus; ground; group; habits; hair; half; head; history; illustration; inches; insects; kinds; land; legs; length; life; little; living; man; marine; means; minute; near; new; north; northern; number; open; order; organs; parts; places; plains; prey; red; region; rivers; rocks; sea; shell; size; skin; slender; snakes; south; southern; species; states; structure; summer; surface; tail; teeth; time; trees; tropical; variety; water; way; white; wings; winter; world; worms; years; young cache: 48196.txt plain text: 48196.txt item: #24 of 28 id: 58118 author: Bingley, William title: Useful Knowledge: Volume 3. Animals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature date: None words: 93594 flesch: 76 summary: Many persons breed rabbits in a _tame_ or _domestic state_. Birds _respire_ by air-vessels, which are extended through their body, and which, in the abdominal cavity, adhere to the under surface of the bones. keywords: account; america; animals; asia; birds; black; body; brown; colour; common; countries; country; deer; description; eggs; england; europe; fat; feathers; feet; fig; fish; flesh; food; form; ground; hair; head; horns; horses; inches; inhabitants; insects; jaw; kind; legs; length; milk; nets; numbers; oil; parts; persons; place; pounds; price; purpose; red; rivers; sea; season; sheep; size; skin; species; state; substance; table; tail; time; trees; tribe; upper; uses; value; water; weight; white; wild; winter; year cache: 58118.txt plain text: 58118.txt item: #25 of 28 id: 60000 author: None title: The Living Animals of the World, Volume 1 (of 2) A Popular Natural History date: None words: 171666 flesch: 76 summary: The rescue of the infant chacma which Brehm saw himself is a remarkable, and indeed the most incontestable, instance of the exhibition of courage and self-sacrifice by a _male_ animal. It will be found that these forest apes differ from other animals and from the true monkeys mainly in this--that they are predisposed to be friendly to man and to obey him, and that they have no bias towards mischief, or monkey tricks. keywords: africa; america; animal; bear; black; body; breed; brown; cape; cat; cats; central; coat; colour; country; creatures; dark; day; deer; dogs; ears; east; elephant; england; europe; european; eyes; f.z.s; fact; family; far; feet; female; fine; flesh; food; forest; form; fox; fur; great; grey; ground; group; habits; hair; head; herds; hind; horns; horse; illustration; inches; indian; legs; length; life; like; lion; little; living; male; man; monkeys; mountains; native; near; new; night; north; northern; number; open; parts; photo; photograph; present; range; red; river; rudland; sea; seals; sheep; shot; shoulder; size; skin; sons; south; southern; species; tail; teeth; tiger; time; tree; true; water; way; west; white; wild; winter; wolf; world; young cache: 60000.txt plain text: 60000.txt item: #26 of 28 id: 60718 author: None title: The Living Animals of the World, Volume 2 (of 2) A Popular Natural History date: None words: 174833 flesch: 70 summary: A common British bird, arriving in April, and leaving again in September.] Though undeniably unmusical, the red-backed shrike is nevertheless able to imitate with considerable success the notes of other small birds, decoying them by this means within striking distance--an accomplishment shared also by other members of the Shrike Family. These are large birds, presenting some resemblances to the Game-birds on the one hand and the Geese on the other. keywords: account; africa; air; american; animals; appearance; australian; beak; birds; black; blue; body; british; brown; case; co.; coloration; colour; common; day; eggs; england; europe; eyes; f.z.s; fact; family; feathers; feed; feet; female; fish; fishes; flies; flight; fly; food; form; fresh; great; green; grey; ground; group; habits; half; head; hind; illustration; inches; indian; insects; islands; kent; legs; length; life; like; little; living; lizard; males; members; milford; neck; nest; new; night; north; number; park; parts; photo; place; plumage; prey; red; regent; sand; saville; sea; season; shape; shell; size; skin; snake; south; species; spots; surface; tail; time; tree; tribe; tropical; true; upper; w. saville; water; way; white; wings; world; yellow; young cache: 60718.txt plain text: 60718.txt item: #27 of 28 id: 7446 author: Hudson, W. H. (William Henry) title: The Naturalist in La Plata date: None words: 103330 flesch: 56 summary: I frequently watched them at dusk, beating about the trees and bushes in a systematic manner, often a dozen or more of them wheeling together about one tree, like so many moths about a candle, and one occasionally dashing through the branches until a pigeon--usually the Zenaida maculata--or other bird was scared from its perch. But as soon as the young cow-birds are able to shift for themselves, and begin to associate with their own kind, their habits change, and they become suspicious and wild like other birds. keywords: america; animal; birds; black; body; burrows; case; chapter; close; colour; common; country; creature; day; death; distance; dog; dogs; earth; enemies; fact; family; fear; feet; fly; food; form; grass; ground; habits; half; head; horse; humming; insects; instinct; kind; life; like; male; man; manner; nature; nest; new; notes; open; pampas; place; plain; prey; puma; sight; size; south; species; spiders; spot; surface; tail; time; tree; vizcacha; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; young cache: 7446.txt plain text: 7446.txt item: #28 of 28 id: 8159 author: Waterton, Charles title: Wanderings in South America date: None words: 85356 flesch: 73 summary: Poor injured little bird of night, how sadly hast thou suffered, and how foul a stain has inattention to facts put upon thy character! They feed entirely on the fruits of the forest and, though of the pie kind, never kill the young of other birds or touch carrion. keywords: account; animal; appearance; arrow; attention; away; bird; black; body; branch; canoe; cayman; close; cotton; country; day; days; demerara; end; eye; fall; feathers; feet; fine; forest; good; ground; guiana; half; hand; head; high; house; indian; kind; left; life; man; morning; nature; new; night; order; parts; place; poison; poor; present; red; river; size; skin; sloth; snake; species; sun; tail; thee; thou; time; tree; view; water; way; white; wilds; wings; wood; world; years cache: 8159.txt plain text: 8159.txt