. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. 186 NATUEAL HISTOET. see him straining vio- lently with repeated efforts to gulp it, and when you fancy that the slippery mouthful is s u c c e s s fu 11 y dis- posed of, all of a sud- den the eel i%trogrades upward from its dis- mal sepulchre, strug- gling violently to es- cape. The Cormorant swallows it again, and up again it comes, and shows its tail a foot or more out of its de- stroyer's mouth. At length, worn out with perpetual writhings and slidings, the eel is gulped down into the Cormorant's stomach, there to meet its dr
. Natural history. For the use of schools and families. Zoology. 186 NATUEAL HISTOET. see him straining vio- lently with repeated efforts to gulp it, and when you fancy that the slippery mouthful is s u c c e s s fu 11 y dis- posed of, all of a sud- den the eel i%trogrades upward from its dis- mal sepulchre, strug- gling violently to es- cape. The Cormorant swallows it again, and up again it comes, and shows its tail a foot or more out of its de- stroyer's mouth. At length, worn out with perpetual writhings and slidings, the eel is gulped down into the Cormorant's stomach, there to meet its dreaded and inevitable ; 301. The Tropic Bird, Fig. 154, is reckoned among the. Fig. 153 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hooker, Worthington, 1806-1867. New York, Harper & Brothers
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