The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization: The class Reptilia, with specific descriptions by E. Griffith and E. Pidgeon. 1831G. B. Whittaker, 1831 |
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abdominal adders Agama Ameiva Anguis animals Anolis appears bands batracians belly bite blackish body Boie bones Brit brown Bufo cameleon carapace claws colour Coluber common compressed covered cranium crest crocodiles Crotalus Daud Daudin dorsal scales edge eggs Egypt elongated Emys eyes feet femoral pores Fitzinger flesh frogs Gecko genus gills Gray green head hinder Iguana imbricated inches inhabits keeled keeled scales Kuhl Lacep Lacépède Lacerta Laur length Linnæus live lizards lungs membrane Merr Merrem mouth muscles muzzle naturalists neck North America nostrils nuchal observed ophidians osseous palate plates poison Rana reptiles ribs round Salamander saurians Schn Scincus Scytale Seba serpents Shaw shields side skin skink smooth species spines Spix spots Stellio sternum tail teeth Teius thighs toads toes tongue tortoises transverse tubercles turtle tympanum venomous vertebræ viper Wagler yellow Zool
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Side 60 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Side 61 - Much too wise to walk into a well," and has so much discernment as not to fall down an haha; but to stop and withdraw from the brink with the readiest precaution. Though he loves warm weather he avoids the hot sun; because his thick shell, when once heated, would, as the poet says of solid armour — "scald with safety.
Side 61 - ... way. I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices ; for as soon as the good old lady comes in sight who has waited on it for more than thirty years, it hobbles towards its benefactress with awkward alacrity; but remains inattentive to strangers. Thus not only " the ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib...
Side 61 - When one reflects on the state of this strange being, it is a matter of wonder to find that Providence should bestow such a profusion of days, such a seeming waste of longevity, on a reptile that appears to relish it so little as to squander more than twothirds of its existence in a joyless stupor, and be lost to all sensation for months together in the profoundest of slumbers.
Side 373 - Kitton how they came to be exempted from this mischief ? He said they were born so, and so said the grave and respectable men among them. Many of the lighter and lower sort talked of enchantments, by words and by writing, but they all knew how to prepare any person by medicines, which were decoctions of herbs and roots.
Side 374 - I have seen many thus armed for a season do pretty much the same feats as those that possessed the exemption naturally. The drugs were given me, and I several times armed myself, as I thought, resolved to try the experiment, but my heart always failed me when I came to the trial...
Side 61 - If attended to, it becomes an excellent weatherglass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise...
Side 60 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth...
Side 60 - It scrapes out the ground with its fore- feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock...
Side 371 - The cerastes moves with great rapidity, and in all directions, forward, backward, and sideways. Wlien he inclines to surprise any one who is too far from him, he creeps with his side towards the person, and his head averted, till judging his distance, he turns round, springs upon him, and fastens upon the part next to him ; for it is not true what is said that the cerastes does not leap or spring.