The Illustrated Natural History, Volume 3 |
Common terms and phrases
abdomen animal appearance armed attains bands bear beautiful belonging bite body British brown called closely coasts colour common considerable covered creature curious dark deep developed dorsal fin edge eggs employed example extremely eyes feeds feet figure fish flesh foot four Frog furnished genus given green habits hand head hook illustration inches inhabits jaws kind known leaves length living localities manner marked means mentioned molluscs mouth native nature nearly object pass placed poison portion possess prey projecting remarkable represented reptile resemblance rivers rocks round runs scales seas seems seen Serpent shape Shark sharp shell shores short side similar skin Snake sometimes soon species specimens spines spots Stickleback stones strong structure substance surface tail taken teeth termed thought tint tolerably upper usually whole yellow young