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- Two Wolves
Two Wolves Black and White Ware. 11 by 5½ inches. Osborn Ruin. - 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. - 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 - Bridges’s Wood-Hewer
Bridges’s Wood-Hewer - White-Capped Tanager
White-Capped Tanager - White-banded Mocking-Bird
White-banded Mocking-Bird - Brown Cachalote
Brown Cachalote - Chat-like Tyrant
Chat-like Tyrant - Cow-bird
Cow-bird - The Pursuit
Birds chasing insects - Two birds watching a bug
- On the Watch
Bird watching a butterfly - Butterfly and flower frame
- Butterfly frame
- Insect Frame 2
- Insect Frame 3
- Insect frame
- Insect Frame 4
- Calf
Calf laying down - Cow
Cows head - Cow
- Tiger Cub
- Tiger head
Tiger head - Body of an insect
Body of an insect (Hymenoptera), showing the principal divisions A, head B, thorax C, abdomen a, antenna c, compound eyes m, mandible s, simple eyes b, prothorax d, mesothorax k, metathorax 1W, fore-wing 2W, hind-wing n, coxa o, trochanter p, femur r, tibia t, tarsus 1 to 9 segments of the abdomen. - Oral and digestive system of Deinacrida megacephala
Oral and digestive system of Deinacrida megacephala 1, mandibles 2, maxillæ 3, labrum 4, labium 5, maxillary palpi 6, labial palpi 8, œsophagus 9, crop 10, gizzard 11, pancreas 12, stomach 13, biliary vessels 14, ilium 15, colon 16, anus. - Chætosoma scaritides
Chætosoma scaritides - Stethaspis suturalis - Larva
Stethaspis suturalis - Larva - Colymbetes rufimanus - Larva
- Dorcus punctulatus
Dorcus punctulatus - Dryocora howittii - Larva
Dryocora howittii - Larva - Dryocora howittii
Dryocora howittii - Staphylinus oculatus
Staphylinus oculatus - Stethaspis suturalis
Stethaspis suturalis - Colymbetes rufimanus
- Pterostichus opulentus - Larva
- Pterostichus opulentus
- Cicindela tuberculata - Larva
- Cicindela tuberculata
- Head and Antlers of the Arctic Reindeer
- Cockroach (Roach)
- Ewe with baby lambs
- Drassidæ
A large family of spiders, varying greatly in shape, color, and habits. Most of them are dull colored, and live under stones, or in silk tubes on plants, and make no webs for catching insects. Their eyes are small, and arranged in two rows on the front of the head. Their feet have two claws and a bunch of flat hairs. The spinnerets are usually long enough to extend a little behind the abdomen. The figure is a Drassus, and the eyes as seen from in front. - Agalenidæ
Long-legged, brown spiders, with two spinnerets longer than the others, and extending out behind the body. Figure is Agalena nævia, the common grass spider. They make flat webs, with a funnel-shaped tube at one side, in which the spider waits. - Spiderweb
The simple nests and tubes that have been described are made by spiders, most of which spin no other webs. The larger and better known cobwebs for catching insects are made by comparatively few species. On damp mornings in summer the grass-fields are seen to be half covered with flat webs, from an inch or two to a foot in diameter, which are considered by the weatherwise as signs of a fair day. These webs remain on the grass all the time, but only become visible from a distance when the dew settles on them. Figure is a diagram of one of these nests, supposed, for convenience, to be spun between pegs instead of grass. The flat part consists of strong threads from peg to peg, crossed by finer ones, which the spider spins with the long hind-spinnerets - Stages of the Diamond-back Moth
a, Diamond-back Moth (Plutella cruciferarum) b, young caterpillar, dorsal view c, full-grown caterpillar, dorsal view d, side view e, pupa, ventral view. From Journ. Dept. Agric. Ireland, vol. I - A. Head of a typical Moth
showing proboscis formed by flexible maxillae (g) between the labial palps (p);c, face; e, eye; the structure m has been regarded as the vestige of a mandible. B. Basal part (b) of maxilla removed from head, with vestigial palp (p). Magnified. - Common Cockroach
(Blatta orientalis). a, female; b, male; c, side view of female; d, young. After Marlatt, Entom. Bull. 4, U.S. Dept. Agric. The young creature is hatched from the egg in a form closely resembling, on the whole, that of its parent, so that the term 'miniature adult' sometimes applied to it, is not inappropriate. The baby cockroach is known by its flattened body, rounded prothorax, and stiff, jointed tail-feelers or cercopods; the baby grasshopper by its strong, elongate hind-legs, adapted, like those of the adult, for vigorous leaping. - Tortoise
The figure represents a tortoise. When one sees a resemblance between this creature's head and neck and the linga, one can understand why both in. India and in Greece the animal should be regarded as sacred to the goddess personifying the female creator, and why in Hindoo myths it is said to support the world. - Skeletons of five anthropoid apes
These skeletons of the five living genera of anthropomorpha are reduced to a common size, in order to show better the relative proportions of the various parts. The human skeleton is 1/20 th natural size, the gorilla 1/18 th, the chimpanzee 1/7 th, the orang 1/7 th, the gibbon 1/9 th. Young specimens of the chimpanzee and orang have been selected, because they approach nearer to man than the adult. No one of the living anthropoid apes is nearest to man in all respects; this cannot be said of either of the African (gorilla and chimpanzee) or the Asiatic (orang and gibbon). This anatomic fact is explained phylogenetically on the ground that none of them are direct ancestors of man; they represent divergent branches of the stem, of which man is the crown. However, the small gibbon is nearest related to the hypothetical common ancestor of all the anthropomorpha to which we give the name of Prothylobates. - Embryos of three mammals
(At three corresponding stages of development). B = Bat (Rhinolophus) G = Gibbon (Hylobates) M = Man (Homo) - Mallard
- Slobe duck
- Spur-winged goose
- Fox goose
- Mountain duck
- Black Swan
- Wild Goose