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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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and gizzard, voluminous iiuestiues, and long coeea, also a vast receptacle in which the i lates, as in a bladder; they are accordingly the only birds that urinate. The penis is very long, and olicn protruded. But two species are known, each of which might form a separate genus, [and they are now generally recognizedas such, an additional spi-cies haviuif been discovered of one of them.] The Ostrich of the Eastern Continent (Str. camelm, Lin.).—Onlytwo toes to each foot, the outer of which, shorter by one-half than theother, IS destitute of a nail. This bird, celebrated from the mostremote antiquity, and very numerous in the sandy deserts of Arabiaand the whole of Africa, attains the lieijfht of six feet and a half. Itlives in large flocks, lays cffRS which weigh nearly three iwunda each,and which, in very hot chinates, it leaves to be hatched by the solarheat, but, in e.vtra-tropical rejioiis, carefully incubates and de-fends them with courage. It subsists on grain and herbage, and
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