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'Don't be afraid, Angelica! if a dozen bears come, I will kill them rather than they shall hurt you. 'Oh, you silly creature! says she; 'you are very good, but you are not very wise. When they looked at the flowers, Giglio was utterly unacquainted with botany, and had never heard of Linnaeus.
It is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Sark only. I have not seen a specimen at Mr. Couch's, or any of the other bird-stuffers, but there is one in the Museum and some eggs, all of which are probably Guernsey. HOUSE SPARROW. Passer domesticus, Linnaeus. French, "Moineau domestique," "Grosbec moineau."
The grounds upon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: "On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem," and finally, "ex lege naturae jure meritoque."
This last summer, however , I saw very few Wrynecks only four or five during the whole of the two months I was in the Islands, and hardly heard them at all. It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There are two specimens in the Museum. HOOPOE. Upupa Epops, Linnaeus. French, "La Huppé," "Huppé ordinaire."
It is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There is, however, no specimen now in the Museum. I am very doubtful as to whether I ought to include the Bearded Tit, Panurus biarmicus of Linnaeus, in this list. There are a pair in the Museum, but these may have been obtained in France or England. One of Mr.
Yet, notwithstanding this difference in essential features of structure, and in the mode of reproduction and development, there is such an external resemblance between certain animals belonging to the two groups that they were associated together even by so eminent a naturalist as Linnaeus. Compare, for instance, the Serpents among the Scaly Reptiles with the Caecilians among the Naked Reptiles.
He likewise complains, that at the Botanic Garden the bust of Linnaeus had been destroyed, on a presumption of its being that of Charles the Ninth; and if it had been that of Charles the Ninth, it is not easy to discern how the cause of liberty was served by its mutilation.
SPOONBILL. Platalea leucorodia, Linnaeus. French, "Spatule blanche." An occasional but by no means common visitant to the Channel Islands. I have been able to hear of but very few instances of its occurrence or capture of late years; Mr. Couch, however, writes me, in a letter dated November, 1873, that a Spoonbill was brought to him to stuff.
This, however, is mere supposition on my part, for which I have no reason except that both birds were said to have been killed in Herm, and both in May. Professor Ansted mentions the Marsh Harrier in his list, but marks it as only found in Guernsey. HEN HARRIER. Circus cyaneus, Linnaeus. French, "Busard St. Martin."
Robinet's speculations are rather behind, than in advance of, those of De Maillet; and though Linnaeus may have played with the hypothesis of transmutation, it obtained no serious support until Lamarck adopted it, and advocated it with great ability in his 'Philosophie Zoologique.
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