The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . y feet, andlarge, crooked, sharp claws—the vulture, the fal-con, the owl. a. Levirostkes. With short feet; and very large, thick, but mostly hollow, and therefore light bills—parrots, toucans, &c. 3. Pici. With short feet; moderately long and small bills, and the tongue sometimes worm-shaped,sometimes thread-like—the wry neck, woodpecker,creeper, humming-bird, &c. (a.) Cartilaginoits, ivithout true bones.(b.) Bony Fishes—Fishes properly so called. (a.) 1. Chondropterygii. Without an operculum, or covering of the gills—as the shark, the
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . y feet, andlarge, crooked, sharp claws—the vulture, the fal-con, the owl. a. Levirostkes. With short feet; and very large, thick, but mostly hollow, and therefore light bills—parrots, toucans, &c. 3. Pici. With short feet; moderately long and small bills, and the tongue sometimes worm-shaped,sometimes thread-like—the wry neck, woodpecker,creeper, humming-bird, &c. (a.) Cartilaginoits, ivithout true bones.(b.) Bony Fishes—Fishes properly so called. (a.) 1. Chondropterygii. Without an operculum, or covering of the gills—as the shark, the lamprey, the torpedo, the skate, the saw fish, &c.(a.) 2. Branchiostegi. With an operculum—the sturgeon, the globe fish, the sun fish, &c.(b.) 3. Apodes. Without ventral fins—the eel, the sword fish, &c.(b.) 4. JuGULAREs. Having the ventral in front of the pectoral fins—the haddock, the cod, the piper, &c.(b.) 5. Thoracici. Having the ventral immediately below the pectoral fin—the dory, the plaice, the § ; AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. (b.) 6. Abdominales. Having the ventral behind the pectoral fins—the salmon, the trout, and mostfresh water fish. INSECTS. 1. CoLEOPTERA. Mostly with horny bodies—bee- tles. 2. Hemiptera. With four wings, folded together crucically or longitudinally, hard for one-half, andalmost like parchment—the cock-roach, the grass-hopper. 3. Lepidoptera. With soft hairy bodies, and four expanded wings, covered with coloured scales—but-terflies. 4. Neuroptera. With four transparent, net-shaped, or lattice-like wings—the ephemera or day-fly, thewater moth. 5. Hfmenoptera. With four transparent veined wings—the wasp, the bee, the ant. 6. Diptera. Insects with two wings, (uncovered)— the gnat, the various species of flies. 7. Aptera. Insects without wings—the spider, the scorpion, the crab, the flea.[In the above orders of Insects, Blumenbach has fol-lowed Linnaeus.] WORMS. 1. Intestina. Long worms, without any evident
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