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- On the Watch
Bird watching a butterfly - Two birds watching a bug
- The Pursuit
Birds chasing insects - Brown Cachalote
Brown Cachalote - Chat-like Tyrant
Chat-like Tyrant - Cow-bird
Cow-bird - Bridges’s Wood-Hewer
Bridges’s Wood-Hewer - White-Capped Tanager
White-Capped Tanager - White-banded Mocking-Bird
White-banded Mocking-Bird - Many-coloured Ground Finch
Many-coloured Ground Finch - Red-breasted Plant-cutter
Red-breasted Plant-cutter - Schulz's Dipper
Schulz's Dipper - Shrikes
Shrikes 1 Ochre-Headed Greenlet-Shrike 2 Deep-Billed Greenlet-Shrike - The coffee tree
The Coffee Tree For the Satisfaction of the Curious, have prefix’d a Figure of the Tree, Flower, and Fruit, which I delineated from a growing Tree in the Amsterdam Gardens. - Two Wolves
Two Wolves Black and White Ware. 11 by 5½ inches. Osborn Ruin. - Egg-capsule of P. orientalis
A external view B opened C end view. The eggs of the Cockroach are laid sixteen together in a large horny capsule. This capsule is oval, with roundish ends, and has a longitudinal serrated ridge, which is uppermost while in position within the body of the female. The capsule is formed by the secretion of a “colleterial” gland, poured out upon the inner surface of a chamber (vulva) into which the oviducts lead. The secretion is at first fluid and white, but hardens and turns brown on exposure to the air. In this way a sort of mould of the vulva is formed, which is hollow, and opens forwards towards the outlet of the common oviduct. Eggs are now passed one by one into the capsule; and as it becomes full, its length is gradually increased by fresh additions, while the first-formed portion begins to protrude from the body of the female. When sixteen eggs have descended, the capsule is closed in front, and after an interval of seven or eight days, is dropped in a warm and sheltered crevice. In Periplaneta orientalis it measures about ·45 in. by ·25 in. - Longitudinal section of Female Cockroach
Longitudinal section of Female Cockroach, to show the position of the principal organs. Oe œsophagus S.gl, salivary gland S.r salivary reservoir Cr crop G gizzard St, chylific stomach R rectum Ht heart N.C nerve-cord Uses Of the uses to which Cockroaches have been put we have little to say. They constitute a popular remedy for dropsy in Russia, and both cockroach-tea and cockroach-pills are known in the medical practice of Philadelphia. Salted Cockroaches are said to have an agreeable flavour which is apparent in certain popular sauces. - Rabbit
- Lily and Rose
- Lily
- Poppy
- Chickens
- Rabbits
- Olive Branch
Olive Branch - Peacock
- Lilies
- Study of Horned Poppy
Study of Horned Poppy - Adaption of Horned Poppy for needlework
- Poppyheads
Poppyheads - Buffalo grazing
- Advancing, ... her clear eyes fixed on mine
- Cat looking up
- And from that hour they were fast friends
- was glad ... that she had not died elsewhere
- There was a useless battle
- She passed deliciously dreamy days
- Rolling on the crimson rug
- In company of the everlasting tortoise
- And still looked directly in my eyes
- Betty
- Mack
Cat trying to open the door - Thomas
- Tiger
- Snooks
- Sammy
- Pete
- Mitch
- Jimmie
- Dump
- Samson Slaying a Lion
Judges 14:6 - Daniel in the Lion's Den
Daniel 6:19, 22 - The Rhesus and Entellus. (1 Kings 10. 22)
- The Badger (Exod. 26 14)
"Thou shalt make a covering above of badgers' skins." - Dogs prowling at Night. (Psa. 59 14)
Dogs prowling at Night "At evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city. Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied"—Psalm LIX. 14, 15. - The Lion and his Den. (Ezek. xix. 2)
An animal so destructive among the flocks and herds could not be allowed to carry out its depredations unchecked, and as we have already seen, the warfare waged against it has been so successful, that the Lions have long ago been fairly extirpated in Palestine. The usual method of capturing or killing the Lion was by pitfalls or nets, to both of which there are many references in the Scriptures. - Ostrich
Ostrich "What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse and his rider."—Job xxxix. 18. - Mus rattus
- Mus decumanus
- Head of Mus rattus
- Head of Mus decumanus