Leland Stanford Junior University Publications: University series, Issues 12-161913 |
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... between the corners of the mouth . The front of the head is semi - circular in outline . The fins are all more or less concave behind . The pectorals when folded back almost reach to opposite the posterior end of the 4 FISHES FROM BRAZIL.
... between the corners of the mouth . The front of the head is semi - circular in outline . The fins are all more or less concave behind . The pectorals when folded back almost reach to opposite the posterior end of the 4 FISHES FROM BRAZIL.
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... fins are dark . 2. Hyproprion brevirostris Poey . A specimen , a couple of feet long , taken at Pará . Its teeth are not mature enough to note their final character . They are abruptly widened at the base and very slightly serrate . In ...
... fins are dark . 2. Hyproprion brevirostris Poey . A specimen , a couple of feet long , taken at Pará . Its teeth are not mature enough to note their final character . They are abruptly widened at the base and very slightly serrate . In ...
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... fin . On one specimen there are two pairs of dark spots on the rostral ridges . The under part of the snout has a black blotch . FAMILY PRISTIDÆ . 5. Pristis perrotteti Valenciennes . A large " saw , " 4 feet in length , was obtained in ...
... fin . On one specimen there are two pairs of dark spots on the rostral ridges . The under part of the snout has a black blotch . FAMILY PRISTIDÆ . 5. Pristis perrotteti Valenciennes . A large " saw , " 4 feet in length , was obtained in ...
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... fin begins a distance behind the gill opening equal to the length of the snout . The longest rays are toward the posterior end of the dorsal , where their length is contained 223 times in the length of the head . The ground color is ...
... fin begins a distance behind the gill opening equal to the length of the snout . The longest rays are toward the posterior end of the dorsal , where their length is contained 223 times in the length of the head . The ground color is ...
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... fins are uniform dusky brown like the body , but posteriorly they grow slightly darker toward the margin , and are narrowly edged with white . The type and only specimen is 5 inches in length , and was collected in the rock pools at ...
... fins are uniform dusky brown like the body , but posteriorly they grow slightly darker toward the margin , and are narrowly edged with white . The type and only specimen is 5 inches in length , and was collected in the rock pools at ...
Common terms and phrases
ALEXANDER WILSON American parallels Ammonites Ammonoids ancestor Anth antheridium apex apical cell archegonia arrest of development avis Bactrites base bird Bolívar Brazil Brazilian Carboniferous caudal caudal peduncle Ceratites Ceratitidae characters colonial color columba cornix crane Cretaceous dark dorsal dusky eagle fins frond genera genetic series genus Goniatites head Hyatt and Smith inches in length interorbital Jungermanniales Lake Papary lateral line Latin America Levieri Linnæus Lower Triassic luscinia Madeira River market at Pará MART Meekoceras midrib Natal nightingale nunc ontogeny Paleozoic Pallavicinia Papary Pará pectoral Permian Philomela Phoenix plates PLAUT Plin poets political Portuguese posterior quae quam quod radiculosa raven Roman San Martin scales showing side snout song Spain Spanish America species specimens were taken spine sporophyte spots stage Steindachner swallow swan taken at Pará teeth thallus ventral VERG volucres vulture Waagenoceras wings Zollingeri
Popular passages
Page 51 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 81 - ... the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere, Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 39 - In summo custos Tarpeiae Manlius arcis Stabat pro templo et Capitolia celsa tenebat, Romuleoque recens horrebat regia culmo. Atque hic auratis volitans argenteus anser 655 Porticibus Gallos in limine adesse canebat...
Page 26 - I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody ! How public, like a frog, To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
Page 127 - These are the days when birds come back, A very few, a bird or two, To take a backward look. These are the days when skies put on The old, old sophistries of June, A blue and gold mistake.
Page 239 - A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland, The charm of the goldenrod — Some of us call it Autumn, And others call it God.
Page 111 - And consider green and violet and the tufted crown intentional, And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else, And the jay in the woods never studied the gamut, yet trills pretty well to me, And the look of the bay mare shames silliness out of me.
Page 41 - Rome ! Where tribunes rule, where dusky Davi bow, And what was Goose-Creek once is Tiber now...
Page 142 - Reminds not what is past, nor what's to come dost fear. "The dawning morn with songs thou dost prevent, Sets hundred notes unto thy feathered crew, So each one tunes his pretty instrument And, warbling out the old, begins anew; And thus they pass their youth in summer season, Then follow thee into a better Region, Where winter's never felt by that sweet airy legion.
Page 164 - Then on the fatal cart, in state They raised our grand Duumvirate. And as at Rome a like committee, Who found an owl within their city, With solemn rites and grave processions, At every shrine...