Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting / from the French of Louis Figuier.

  • Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting / from the French of Louis Figuier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reptiles and Birds.. INTRODUCTORY. fearful fangs, and against which^C d1 'Lm'' ltS lluoe mouth disclosing but their slendiX^tf oppose “pTTI ^ Professor Huxley “a humniino- hi n iaced Slde By side,” says and a crocodile/offer the stronfes^L^ f tort°lse’ 01' an ostrich have little but its animalitv ingr ntrast,: and a stork seems to swallows.” Nevertheless unlike‘ '°™mon WIth the snake which it there is sufficient reseintTth* L^a.” °Ut',a,'d ^aranae, together in classifying the animal kincrrl^ economy to bring them exists between the digestive canal and^YiT lC a.lr'bladder which becomes vascular, with’theform ' b’dneys in some fishes, reptiles; the heart has two auricles ‘the venSrH^1^—f lungs in divided, and more or less nf ti-,1 tucle in most is imperfectly arterial, which circulates over L bodv^bnf 0^1 1S mifed with the being transitional in structure, they are also cold hi11? ^ g'Ils and the lungs are spongy, the cav tv Zf tZ i COid-blooded. In birds, by the multiplication of vascular7cellules be<:oming obliterated transmitting venous blood to the Inn™ heart is four-chambered, Fahr yi SA ThUS rePtileS' likC bir<ls> breathe *= common air by means of