 | William Bingley - 1803 - 524 páginas
...small pieces of flesh. It is a native of Brazil and Guiana, and sometimes measures eight or nine feet from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail.* The female brings forth one young at a time, which does not arrive at maturity till it is four years... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 páginas
...enormous size, and covered with long, black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet in length. or their honey. But should he meet with little success,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 páginas
...enormous size, and covered with long black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet in length. The food of this very singular animal consists principally... | |
 | Sir William Jardine - 1839 - 414 páginas
...the plates, we should be led to suspect that they differ ; and this suspicion is * Oss. Foss. tvp 200 confirmed by the authority of Cuvier himself, who,...comes out of the water, all the upper part of the • Loc. cit. p. 202. t Mamm. Mar. 1824. body and head, together with its hind feet and tail, are of... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 páginas
...and covered with long black hair, somewhat like the tail of a horse. The whole length of the animal, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, is sometimes eight or nine feet. Its food consists principally of ants, which it obtains in the following... | |
 | Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1860 - 490 páginas
...strong. The individual represented in the two figures on the accompanying plate, taken from MF Cuvier"s Mammiferes, was still young : it measured two feet...comes out of the water, all the upper part of the * Loc. cit. p. 202. t Mamm. Mar. 1824. body and head, together with its hind feet and tail, are of... | |
 | 1885 - 658 páginas
...Montrose, and was forwarded by the Messrs Johnston of that town to Dr Ewart. The shark measured 11 feet 6 inches from the end of the snout to the tip of the upper lobe of the tail. When the abdominal cavity was opened into, and when the liver and alimentary... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 684 páginas
...whose name alone ought to. strike terror into the souls of every beholder, were seventy-five feet long from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, and were so very snakelike in form that even solemn scientific men have given them in all seriousness the... | |
 | Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom - 1897 - 456 páginas
...Mewstone, at a depth of about forty-five fathoms. The specimen was a female, and measured 6 feet 6 inches from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail. The following are the principal other measurements : snout to anterior edge of first dorsal fin, 46... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1892 - 1146 páginas
...tail, in the older of the two stages, forwards. The younger stage measures along the dorsal curve, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail, 12 cm., the greatest diameter of the body being 3 cm. ; the corresponding measurements of the older... | |
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Mammiferes, was still young : it measured two feet eight inches, from the end of the snout to the tip of the tail ; and the length of this member was three and a half inches. In the plate it is represented both whilst wet and dry, that the differences... 
