"Caudal" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... anglers caught several fine fishes and an eel, in the water-holes of the Mackenzie. The former belonged to the Siluridae, and had four fleshy appendages on the lower lip, and two on the upper; dorsal fin 1 spine 6 rays, and an adipose fin, pectoral 1 spine 8 rays; ventral 6 rays; anal 17 rays; caudal 17-18 rays; velvety teeth in the upper and lower jaws, and in the palatal bones. Head flat, belly broad; back of a greenish silver-colour; belly silvery white; length of the body 15-20 inches. It made a singular noise when ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... early fruit, sweetmeats, and two very fine sheep. These latter, of the celebrated Shanghae breed, were the finest specimens I have seen for a long time; and the most striking peculiarity about them was the preponderance of fat to their caudal extremities, the tail of each being of an entirely different formation from that of the European breed; and I can compare it to nothing better than an immense woolly mop, "in the place where the tail ought to grow." I do not know if any of these sheep have ever been imported into the United ...
— Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas • W. Hastings Macaulay
... y trabajador con fruto, como lo acreditaba, no solamente su apodo, sino tambien su mucha hacienda, por el adquirida a fuerza de buenas o malas artes, y representada en las mejores suertes de tierra de aquella jurisdiccion, tomo a censo enfiteutico[77-3] del caudal de Propios, 10 [77-4] y casi de balde, mediante algunas gallinas no ponedoras que regalo al secretario del Ayuntamiento, unos secanos situados a las inmediaciones de la villa, en medio de los cuales veianse los restos y escombros de un antiguo castillejo,[77-5] morabito o atalaya arabe, cuyo nombre ...
— Novelas Cortas • Pedro Antonio de Alarcon
... irregular dusky spots, which get more confluent towards the back. Throat pinkish, and belly silvery white. Scales small, and concealed in a thick epidermis. Fins obscure. The dorsals confluent. The first dorsal has 11 spines, and the caudal fin is convex. Plate 6 figure 1. Observation: This fish may be identical with the fish described by MM. Cuvier and Valenciennes Volume 3 page 45 under the name of Gristes macquariensis: but it differs from their description in not having the ...
— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 1 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell
... how the ears vary in size in different breeds, and with their great development their muscles become atrophied. Certain breeds of dogs are described as having a deep furrow between the nostrils and lips. The caudal vertebrae, according to F. Cuvier, on whose authority the two last statements rest, vary in number; and the tail in English cattle and some shepherd dogs is almost absent. The mammae vary from seven to ten in number; Daubenton, having examined twenty- one dogs, found eight with five mammae on ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin |
