- Nests of the Bottle bird
Nests of the Bottle bird - Woodpecker drilling a hole for a nest
The woodpeckers are carpenters; they not only bore holes in trees in search of food, but they also chisel out deep holes in which to deposit their eggs and rear their young. They generally build their nest in May, selecting an old apple tree in the orchard; the boring is first done by the male, who pecks out a circular hole; as the work progresses, he is occasionally relieved by the female. They both work with great diligence, and as the hole deepens they carry out the chips, sometimes taking them some distance to prevent discovery or suspicion. The nest usually requires a week to build, and when the female is quite satisfied she deposits her eggs, generally six in number and of a pure white color. - Nests of Social Weavers
The social weaver is found in the south of Africa. Hundreds of these birds, in one community, join to form a structure of interwoven grass containing various apartments, all covered by a sloping roof impenetrable to the heaviest rain, and increased year after year as the population of the little community may require. - Ruffs ( Machetes pugnax )
The Ruff ( Machetes or Pavoncella pugnax ) may be regarded as a long-legged Strandlooper, the only representative of his family. The beak is as long as the head (but shorter than the barrel), straight, at the tip slightly lowered and not broadened, soft all along its length, the foot is high and slender, the lower leg naked well above the hocks; of the three fronts, the middle one is connected to the outer by a tension fleece; the short, high back toe does not touch the ground; the wings are of medium length and pointed; the tail is short, composed of 12 feathers, slightly rounded at the tip. - Curlew ( Numenius arquatus )
Numenius are slender-built Birds with very long, weakly curved downward, high at the root, gradually thinning beak forward; with the exception of the horn-like spire, it is covered with a soft skin; the upper jaw is slightly longer than the lower jaw and slightly curved over it. The legs are slender and high, without feathering well above the hock; all three prongs are joined together by clear webbing. In the large, pointed wings the first flight is the longest; the medium-long tail composed of twelve feathers is rounded at the tip. The hard, close-fitting plumage is reminiscent of that of the Lark by its color, and is similar in males and females to each other and in the different seasons. [Translated from the Dutch by online translator ] - Avocet( Recurvirostra avocetta )
The Avocet is drawn in a simple but very graceful way. The upper head, the neck and the back neck, the shoulders and most of the wings are black, two large patches on the wings, and all the rest of the plumage are white. The eye is reddish brown, the beak black, the foot dark blue-gray. Total length 43, tail length 7 cm. - Lapwing ( Vanellus cristatus )
The Lapwing is recognizable by the weakly flask-shaped swollen bill, on the four-toed feet, on the blunt wings, whose point is formed by the third pin and by the crest that adorns the head. The upper head, the front neck, the upper breast and the rear half of the tail are glossy dark black, the feathers of the mantle dark green with blue or purple highlights, the sides of the neck, the under breast, the belly and the root half of the tail feathers white, some upper and all lower cover feathers of the tail dark rusty yellow; the crest consists of long, narrow feathers, which form a double point. The eye is brown, the beak black, the foot dirty dark red. Total length 34, tail length 10 cm. [Translaed from the Dutch by online translator] - ) Eurasian dotterel ( Charadrius morinellus ) - 2) Plover ( Charadrius pluvialis )
) Eurasian dotterel ( Charadrius morinellus ) - 2) Plover ( Charadrius pluvialis ) - Egyptian Plover (Crocodile Keeper or Crocodile Watcher)
The Crocodile Keeper, whose image often appears in Ancient Egyptian memorials, as it represents the sound in the hieroglyphic alphabet, is manifold throughout the Nile region. From Cairo upstream, he is not missing in any place suitable for him on the River Nile. Preferably, he selects a sandbank as his base for the purpose of staying there until the washing of the current drives him away. - Estheria obliqua, One of the Conchostraca
- A Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber), One of the Isopoda
- An Amphipod (Gammarus locusta)
- Cyclops albidus, a Species of Copepod found in Fresh Water
- Daphnia pulex, a Common Species of Water-flea.- Female carrying eggs in the brood-chamber
- Diastylis goodsiri, One of the Cumacea
- Dissection of Male Lobster, from the Side
- Larval Stages of the Common Shore Crab
- Last Larval Stage of the Common Porcelain Crab
- Meganyctiphanes norvegica, One of the Euphausiacea
- Mysis relicta, One of the Mysidacea
- Nebalia bipes
- Newly-hatched Young of a Crayfish
- One of the Abdominal Somites of the Lobster, with its Appendages, separated and viewed from in Front
- First Larval Stage of Munida rugosa
- First Larval Stage of the Common Lobster
- Gills of the Lobster, exposed by cutting away the Side-flap of the Carapace
- Gnathophausia willemoesii, One of the Deep-sea Mysidacea
- Young Specimen of an African River Crab
- The Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus,) Female, from the Side
- The 'Fairy Shrimp' (Chirocephalus diaphanus)
- The Phyllosoma Larva of the Common Spiny Lobster
- Two Species of Caprellidæ
- Larval Stages of the Common Rock Barnacle (Balanus balanoides
- Præanaspides præcursor, One of the Fossil Syncarida, from the Coal-measures of Derbyshire
- The Tasmanian 'Mountain Shrimp'
- Restoration of a Trilobite (Triarthrus becki), showing the Appendages
- The Gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
- The Norwegian Deep-water Prawn (Pandalus borealis), Female
- The Common Shrimp (Crangon vulgaris)
- Stages in the Life-history of Hæmocera danæ, One of the Monstrillidæ
- A Fish-louse (Caligus rapax), Female
- Front Part of Body of a Prawn infected, parasites
- Front Part of Body of a Prawn infected, parasites
- Cirolana borealis
- Hyperia galba, Female
- The Sea-slater (Ligia oceanica)
- A Well Shrimp (Niphargus aquilex)
- Asellus aquaticus, Female
- Diaptomus cœruleus, Female
- The Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina)
- Phronima colletti, Male. From a Specimen taken in Deep Water near the Canary Islands
- Copilia quadrata (Female), a Copepod of the Family Corycæidæ
- Calocalanus pavo, One of the Free-swimming Copepoda of the Plankton
- The Nauplius Larva of a Species of Barnacle of the Family Lepadidæ, showing greatly-developed Spines
- The Zoëa Larva of a Species of Sergestes
- Mimonectes loveni. A Female Specimen seen from the Side and from Below
- Eryon propinquus, One of the Fossil Eryonidea, from the Jurassic Rocks of Solenhofen
- Polycheles phosphorus, One of the Eryonidea, Female, from the Indian Seas
- A Deep-sea Crab (Platymaia wyville-thomsoni)
- Thaumastocheles zaleucus