Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History

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West, Newman, 1888
 

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Página 79 - A Manual of Palaeontology, for the Use of Students. With a General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology.
Página 88 - A trooper, sent by the native governor of the district to Chandour, to demand payment of some revenue, was passing along the bank of the river, near Chandour, about noon, when he saw a large female Wolf leave her den, followed by three whelps and a little boy. The boy went on...
Página 89 - ... Hasunpoor. He related all that he had seen, and the boy was soon after sent to the European officer commanding the First Regiment of Oude Local Infantry at Sultanpoor, Captain Nicholetts, by order of the Rajah of Hasunpoor, who was at Chandour, and saw the boy when the trooper first brought him to that village. This account is taken from the Rajah's own report of what had taken place. Captain Nicholetts made him over to the charge of his servants, who take great care of him, but can never get...
Página iii - The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces...
Página 334 - Such roosts are known to be thus occupied for years, beyond the memory of individuals; and I know of one or two which the oldest residents in the quarter state to have been known to their grandfathers, and probably had been resorted to by the crows during several ages previous.
Página 471 - President, in the chair. The following were elected Fellows of the Society : — Mr.
Página 160 - THE object of the ZOOLOQICAL RECORD is to give, in an annual Volume, reports on, abstracts of, and an index to, the various Zoological publications which have appeared during the preceding year ; to acquaint Zoologists with the progress of every branch of their science in all parts of the globe; and to form a repertory which will retain its value for the Student in future years.
Página 95 - In about six weeks after he had been tied up under the tree, with a good deal of beating and rubbing of his joints with oil, he was made to stand and walk upon his legs like other human beings. He was never heard to utter more than one articulate sound, and that was
Página 93 - Sultahpoor cantonments, mentions that about eight or nine years ago a trooper came to the town, with a lad of about nine or ten years of age, whom he had rescued from wolves among the ravines on the road; that he knew not what to do with him, and left him to the common charity of the village ; that he ate everything offered to him, including bread, but before taking it he carefully smelt at it, and always preferred undressed meat to everything else; that he walked on his legs like other people when...
Página 87 - Sultanpoor, and, indeed, all along the ifanks of the Goomtee river, among the ravines, that intersect them; and a great many children are carried off by them from towns, villages, and camps. It is exceedingly difficult to catch them, and hardly any of the Hindoo population, save those of the very lowest class, who live a vagrant life, and bivouac in the jungles, or in the suburbs of towns and villages, will attempt to catch or kill them. All other...

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