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Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting — Louis Figuier

Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting

Louis Figuier

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 548 pages

A popular nineteenth-century natural history survey of reptiles and birds, describing their orders, habits, and ways of life. Louis Figuier writes for general readers, and the book is illustrated with many woodcuts. It is worth listening to as a window into Victorian-era science writing.

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REPTILES AND BIRDS.

HAWKING IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

Frontispiece.

REPTILES AND BIRDS.

A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THEIR VARIOUS ORDERS,

WITH A DESCRIPTION OF

THE HABITS AND ECONOMY OF THE MOST INTERESTING.

BΏ LOUIS FIGUIER,

AUTHOR OF "THE WORLD BEFORE THE DELUGE," "THE VEGETABLE WORLD,"

"THE INSECT WORLD," ETC. ETC.

ILLUSTRATED WITH 307 WOODCUTS.

BY MM. A. MESNEL, A. DE NEUVILLE, AND E. RIOU.

Edited and Adapted by

PARKER GILLMORE

("UBIQUE").

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND CO.

1870.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO.,

CITY ROAD.

PREFACE.

In presenting to the public this English version of LLjǼƗǪ FƗƄǼƗŧǡ'Ǫ interesting work on Reptiles and Birds, I beg to state that where alterations and additions have been made, my object has been that the style and matter should be suited to the present state of general knowledge, and that all classes should be able to obtain useful information and amusement from the pages which I have now the honour and pleasure of presenting to them.

On commencing my undertaking I was not aware of the immensity of the labour to be done, and fear that I must have relinquished my arduous task but for the kind encouragement of Fǡĵƿƫ BǼŕƫƯĵƿŠ,

Esq., Inspector of Salmon Fisheries, and HŧƿǡΏ Lŧŧ, Esq., F.L.S.,

F.G.S., &c., to both of whom I take this opportunity of returning my sincere thanks.

PARKER GILLMORE

("UBIQUE").

December, 1869.

CONTENTS.
REPTILES.
PAGE
IƿǵǡLjŠǼŕǵLjǡΏ CƒĵǙǵŧǡ
1
CHAPTER I.
AMPHIBIA, OR BATRACHIANS.
Structural Distinctions
8
Intelligence
13
Characteristics
15
Historical Antiquity
18
Distribution
19
Frogs
19
Habits of Life
21
Development of Young
22
Green
23
Common
23
Green Tree
24
Toads
25
Natterjack
26
Surinam
28
Land Salamander
31
Spotted
32

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Contents

  1. REPTILES AND BIRDS.
  2. PREFACE.
  3. CONTENTS.
  4. ERRATA.
  5. INTRODUCTORY.
  6. CHAPTER I. AMPHIBIA, OR BATRACHIANS.
  7. CHAPTER II. OPHIDIAN REPTILES, OR TRUE SNAKES.
  8. CHAPTER III. The Order of Lizards.—Saurians.
  9. CHAPTER IV. CHELONIANS, OR SHIELDED REPTILES.
  10. BIRDS.
  11. INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
  12. CHAPTER I. THE NATATORES, OR SWIMMING BIRDS.
  13. CHAPTER II. DUCKS, GEESE, SWANS, AND PELICANS.
  14. CHAPTER III. THE LARIDÆ.
  15. CHAPTER IV. GRALLATORES, OR WADING BIRDS.
  16. CHAPTER V. GALLINACEOUS BIRDS.
  17. CHAPTER VI. SCANSORES, OR CLIMBERS.
  18. CHAPTER VII. PASSERINES.
  19. CHAPTER VIII. RAPTORES, OR BIRDS OF PREY.
  20. FOOTNOTES.
  21. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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