. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. Host part bnin^ pions near the soil appears to to be founrl in 5ar tlie cqnator do towards the rality of these progression on iirface without n and aeration the heart in 3rmed anricles n the Reptiles, lood finding a blood is never y much colder tiles is widely be the general k about with nto a state of their gestures onless. Their ;he process of on them, their or two species ir, much after ire apparently ivith wing-like ike the bats of I, and many of


. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. Host part bnin^ pions near the soil appears to to be founrl in 5ar tlie cqnator do towards the rality of these progression on iirface without n and aeration the heart in 3rmed anricles n the Reptiles, lood finding a blood is never y much colder tiles is widely be the general k about with nto a state of their gestures onless. Their ;he process of on them, their or two species ir, much after ire apparently ivith wing-like ike the bats of I, and many of ? of rapacious 3 which trans- on in the later !nt in some of rmidablc even ie. the frogs, y be given, is ist. It is well s formed from at its earliest SKELETON OF CROCODILE. g With the exception of the tortoises, the Reptiles mostly possess a goodly array of ceth, set 111 the jaw or palate, and ns a general fact, being sharp and more or less curved backward Jheir bodies are covered with various modifications of the structure termed tlie (iernial, skin skeleton, and are furnished with scales and plates of difTerent forms In some cases the scales lie overlnpping each other like those of the fish, in others they are modified into knobby plates, and in some, of which the tortoises afford well-known amnjrr' """ ^''''*'''' "" '''" '''"'^' '""^ ^"'''^^' ''"'^ '^'^•'^^ "PO" tl'c feet KooJ'r-r?"? "^ ^^^V^^^c^ are produced from eggs, mostly being hatched after they have been laid, but in some cases the young escape from the eggs before they make their appearance lu the world As a general fact, h'owever, the eggs of Reptil s L pteed 1 some convenient spot, where they are hatched by tlie heat oT the sun^ Some spedes are. SKELETON OF cnOCODILB very jealous about their eggs, keeping a strict watch over them and several of the In form and often in colour, the Reptiles exhibit an inexhaustible varietv nnrl


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