 | George Shaw - 1790 - 312 ページ
...Mammalia yet known it feems the mod extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfedl refemblance of the beak of a. Duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped. So accurate is the fimilitude that, at firft view, it naturally excites the idea of fome deceptive... | |
 | 1808 - 560 ページ
...Shaw. " Of all the mammalia yet known it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped. So accurate is the similitudes, ttiat, at first view, it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive... | |
 | William Bullock (F.L.S.) - 1809 - 100 ページ
...the quadi uped-i^iet known, this feems the moft extraordinary, exhibiting the'"perfect refemblance of the Beak of a Duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped ; fo great was the refemblance, that Dr. Shaw, who publifhed the tirft account of it, could fcarcely... | |
 | William Bullock - 1813 - 250 ページ
...Esquire, of Liverpool. Of all the quadrupeds yet known this seems the most extraordinary, exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped; so great was the resemblance, that Dr. Shaw, who pvrbliihed the first account of it, could scarcely... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 ページ
...yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resem. blance of the beak of a duck, engrafted on the head of a quad, ruped. So accurate is the similitude, that at first view it naturally excites the idea of some... | |
 | Robert Johnston - 1816 - 406 ページ
...Mammalia, was an excellent specimen of the hairy and spinous duck-billed animal denominated OrnMorinehus, presenting new and strange conformations, contrary...about four pounds weight. We also saw several of the Mustela Erminea, principally caught in the wilds of Russia, from whose skin the valuable ermine fur... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 524 ページ
...Dobson. " Of all the mammalia yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck, engrafted on the head of a quadruped. So accurate is the similitude, that at first view, it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 ページ
...the mammalia, says he, yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck, engrafted on the head of a quad, ruped. So accurate is the similitude, that at first view it naturallv excites the idea of some... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 ページ
...the mammalia, says he, yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck, engrafted on the head of a quadruped. So accurate is the similitude, that at first view it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation... | |
 | 1813 - 998 ページ
...Platypus. Of all the mammalia yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped. So accurate is the similitude, that at first view it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation... | |
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Of all the mammalia yet known, it seems the most extraordinary in its conformation ; exhibiting the perfect resemblance of the beak of a duck, engrafted on the head of a quadruped. 
