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Must you stay? and they are off immediately." So, as Macaulay says of Montgomery's literary thefts, may such ill-got gains ever prosper. My Dissenting minister had a congener in the late Lord P , who was a rollicking man about town thirty years ago, and was famous, among other accomplishments, for this peculiar art of so telling a story as to destroy the point.
The chapter of its natural history is therefore a short one. "The tapir is an inhabitant of the tropical countries of America, dwelling near the banks of rivers and marshy lagoons. The latter, in fact, is a near congener, and very much, resembles the tapir of South America.
It belongs to Spanish America more especially Mexico: and it is said to have been this animal that is represented on the hieroglyphical paintings of the ancient Aztecs. More probably its nobler congener, the jaguar, which is also found in Mexico, is the animal that held this distinction in the land of Anahuac.
One day I kept my eye upon one until it had repeated its song one hundred and three times; then it closed its wings, and dropped toward the earth like a plummet, as does its European congener. While I was watching the bird, a bobolink flew over my head, between me and the lark, and poured out his voluble and copious strain.
In the autumn he enters the forests in search of berries and nuts, and at this season like his congener, the black bear he even extends his depredations to the cultivated grounds and gardens of the villagers, in search of fruit and grain, buckwheat being a favourite food with him.
Had Trüey known the character of that reptile, she would have trembled all the more. She saw before her one of the most venomous of serpents, the black naja, or "spitting-snake" the cobra of Africa far more dangerous than its congener the cobra de capello of India, because far more active in its movements, and equally fatal in its bite. Trüey knew not this.
The Erewhonian quail, like its now nearly, if not quite, extinct New Zealand congener, can take three successive flights of a few yards each, but then becomes exhausted; hence quails are only found on ground that is never burned, and where there are no wild animals to molest them; the cats and dogs that accompany European civilisation soon exterminate them; my father, therefore, felt safe in concluding that he was still far from any village.
His wings are full and long, and his flight is most graceful and easy, not unlike that of his congener the turkey-buzzard. "I have said," continued Lucien, "that naturalists make out five species of American vultures.
So much for llamas. Now the "guanaco." It is neither, but an animal of specific difference. It exists in a wild state in the high mountains, though, with great care and trouble, it can be domesticated and trained to carry burdens as well as its congener the llama. In form it resembles the latter, but, as is the case with most wild animals, the guanacos are all alike in colour.
Like his near congener, the brown bear, he is frugivorous; and, like most other members of their common family, he possesses a sweet tooth, and will rob bees of their honey whenever he can find a hive.
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