Identifier: zoologicalillust01swain (find matches)
Title: Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Bayfield, George Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Insects Mollusks Shells Zoology
Publisher: London : Baldwin & Cradock
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hmentis imbibed by suction. These analogies are equally con-spicuous among the Molluscs?. The Phytiphages of Lamarck(of which the garden snail is a good example), are furnishedwith jaws and masticate their food : the Zoopliages of thesame accurate observer, have their mouth elongated into aretractile trunk or proboscis, by which they pierce throughother shells, and suck the juices of the inhabitant. Toinsist on the importance of these distinctions, employed asthey have been to characterize primary divisions, is surelyunnecessary. That they will be subject to considerablemodification, in the subordinate groups, may naturally beexpected: but we refrain at present from offering an opinionon the nature of such groups, dependant, as they mustbe, on greater anatomical knowledge than we yet possess.Nevertheless, until more direct analogies are discovered,than those here stated, we feel some confidence in employ-ing them as typical distinctions of the two great divisionsof Gastropod Mollusca.
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H I- S A I. 1 SJardinu P S A R I 8 Jardinii. Jardines Saris. Family Todidae.—Nob. Sub-family Psariana.—Nob. Generic Character. Bill thick, strong-, more or less depressed, culmen not elevated, both mandibles notched, the upper convex : nostrils round, nearly naked : rictus smooth ; mouth very wide. Wings long, pointed, the second and third quill longest. Tail short, even. Specific Character.Cinereous white; head, tail, and outer half of the wings, black:first and fifth quill equal: spurious quill none; orbits plumed. In Mus. Nost. In a small collection of birds, from the interior of the vastEmpire of Brazil, we met with this new and highly in-teresting species. Its resemblance to the well known PsarisCat/anus is so close, that even Ornithologists would not atfirst suspect the difference; and this may possibly accountfor its having been overlooked. The size and colour ofthe two birds, in fact, are perfectly alike : but in this, thebill is much more depressed ; the orbits, instead o

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