 | 1803 - 572 էջ
...thick, short, and very fat ; but the most extraordinary circumstance observed in its structure was, its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck. By these it was enabled to supply itself with food, like that bird, in muddy places, or on the banks, of the lakes,... | |
 | 1803 - 748 էջ
...mouth of an animal, the upper and lower maidibles ot a duck. By thefe it was enabled to fupply itfelf with food, like that bird, in muddy places, or on the banks of the lakes, in which its webbed feet enabled it to fwim ; while on fhore its long and lharp claws were... | |
 | 1825 - 778 էջ
...considerably larger than this animal. One extraordinary circumstance in the structure of this creature is its having, instead of the mouth of an animal,...duck. By these it is enabled to supply itself with rood like that bird in muddy places, or on the banks of lakes, in which its webbed feel enable it to... | |
 | Laurie Block - 1986 - 180 էջ
...thick, short, and very fat; but the most extraordinary circumstance observed in its structure was, its having instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck. By these it was enabled to supply itself with food, like that bird, in muddy places, or on the banks of the lakes,... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - 2000 - 380 էջ
...was thick, short and very fat; but the most extraordinary circumstance observed in its structure was its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck. By these it was enabled to supply itself with food, like that bird, in muddy places, or on the banks of the lakes... | |
 | Bill Sherk - 2004 - 312 էջ
...little fellow, Collins added: "But the most extraordinary circumstance observed in its structure was its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck Its webbed feet enabled it to swim, while on shore its long sharp claws were employed in burrowing.... | |
 | Deborah Bird Rose, Richard Davis - 2006 - 215 էջ
...mole species'. 'The most extraordinary circumstance observed in its structure', Collins wrote, 'was its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck'. 9 George Shaw of the British Museum described the dried specimen he had been sent in 1798 by a naturalist... | |
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is its having, instead of the mouth of an animal, the upper and lower mandibles of a duck. By these it is enabled to supply itself with food like that bird in muddy places, or on the banks of lakes, in which its webbed feet 