The Mammals of Minnesota: A Scientific and Popular Account of Their Features and Habits, with 23 Figures and 8 PlatesHarrison & Smith, state printers, 1892 - 299 sivua |
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Acad ALLEN Amer America animal antelope Arvicola AUDUBON BACHMAN badger BAIRD bats beaver body bones brown buffalo burrow claws color Coues dark deer DEKAY dentition domestic dorsal ears Eocene Ermine external Fauna feet Felis female fore foot fossorial genera genus gray habits hairs head Hesperomys hind foot Hist horn inches incisors Insectivora Journ Lasiurus LECONTE legs length Lepus less male mammæ mammals Mephitis mice Mink Minnesota Miocene molar mole mouse muskrat Mustela muzzle nearly North northern nose to eye Otter peculiar pelage Phila plantigrade porcupine posterior prairie premolars prey Proc Putorius regions riparius rodents Säugeth SCHREBER Scotophilus seems short shrews skull skunks slender Sorex South species specimens squirrels surface tail Talpa teeth tion tragus trap tree upper variety vertebræ Vespertilio WAGNER weasel winter yellowish young Zool zygoma zygomatic
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Sivu 121 - raptorial character ; the jaws are worked by enormous masses of muscles covering all the sides of the skull. The forehead is low, and the nose is sharp; the eyes are small, penetrating, cunning, and glitter with an angry green light. There is something peculiar, moreover, in the way that this fierce
Sivu 121 - a remarkably long and slender neck, in such a way that it may be held at a right angle with the axis of the latter. When the creature is glancing around, with the neck stretched up, and the flat triangular head bent forward, swaying from one side to the
Sivu 134 - hind legs and swiftly glide head-foremost down the declivity, sometimes for the distance of twenty yards. This sport they continue apparently with the keenest enjoyment until fatigue or hunger induces them to desist." Statements of similar import are made by various writers, and accord with Audubon's personal observations, as
Sivu 188 - again into a quick trill on c sharp and d. '' Though it be at the risk of taxing belief yet I must, in duty, record one of Hespie's most remarkable performances. She was gamboling in the large compartment of her cage, in a mood indicating intense animal enjoyment, having awoke from
Sivu 105 - creature, which is of the cat kind, is a terrible enemy to the preceding four species of beasts. He either comes upon them from some concealment unperceived, or climbs up into a tree, and taking his station
Sivu 87 - II. Skull with the cerebral portion swollen backwards and outwards, and with the rostral portion abbreviated, high and truncated forwards, and widened and depressed above; anteorbital foramen enlarged and produced downwards and backwards. Feet with welldeveloped interdigital membrane, and adapted for swimming. A. Teeth normal, 36
Sivu 94 - out, and it growing dark, I adjourned the matter to the next day. When I resumed operations, on the parts now weighing only about two ounces out of a Mephitis of nine pounds, I had a strip of skin with the anal lips, the suspicious calices or cones in their cup-like cavities and the pouches.
Sivu 86 - I. Skull with the cerebral portion comparatively compressed backwards; and with the rostral portion comparatively produced, attenuated, and transversely convex above; anteorbital foramen small and opening forwards. Feet with little developed or no interdigital membrane. A. Auditory bulla much Inflated, undivided, bulging, and convex forwards; periotic region extending little outwards or backwards. Palate moderately emarginated. 1. Last molar of upper jaw
Sivu 102 - so powerful a smell, that the air is tainted with it for half a mile in circumference. On this account he is called by the French, Enfant du Diable. the Child of the devil, or Bete Puante, the Stinking Beast.
Sivu 59 - ' Pray you tread softly, that the blind mole may not hear a foot-fall.