 | Thomas Webster - 1855 - 678 pages
...mustela (weasel), and resembles the common weasel in its form ; it is in length from fourteen to sixteen inches, from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail ; the body is from ten to twelve inches long. The change of colour which the ermine experiences... | |
 | England - 1837 - 886 pages
...the genus mustela (weasel), and resembles the common weasel in its form ; is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. The body is from ten to twelve inches long. It lives in hollow trees, river banks, and especially... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pages
...derives its name from its voice, which resembles the lowing of a bull : it measures, in general, eighteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the hind feet. The people of Virginia will not suffer it to be destroyed, as they believe those kind of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...; hind feet palmated. This species grows to a very large siz,e, measuring, k is said, more than 18 inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the hind feet. The upper part of the bodyis brownish, and somewhat irregularly marked with numerous spots... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - Commercial law - 1824 - 1090 pages
...Geo. 1. and 26 Geo. 3. The Turfxx The size of lobsters for sale is fixed by 10 & 11 W. 3. (2) to eight inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the middle fin of the tail, subject to a forfeiture of 1 s. per lobster; and the 1 Geo. 1. (3) enforced... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Zoology - 1831 - 722 pages
...July, 1756, says Borlase, in his History of Cornwall, one was taken which " measured six feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the shell ; ten feet four inches from the extremity of the fore-fins extended ; and was adjudged to weigh... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Reptiles - 1831 - 782 pages
...July, 17^6, says Borlase, in his History of Cornwall, one was taken which " measured six feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the shell ; ten feet four inches from the extremity of the fore-fins extended ; and was adjudged to weigh... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - Fishing - 1834 - 260 pages
...About forty years ago, a trout was caught in the Thames near Hampton, which measured two feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. Another individual of the common species little inferior to this, taken out of a rivulet near... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Gibraltar - 1834 - 656 pages
...genus Mustela, (weazel), and resembles the common weazel in its form ; is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. The body is from ten to twelve inches long. It lives in hollow trees, river banks, and especially... | |
 | Leonard Jenyns - Vertebrates - 1835 - 624 pages
...caught in the mackerel-nets oft' the coast of Cornwall, in July 1756. The largest measured six feet nine inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the shell, and was adjudged to weigh eight hundred pounds. Pennant speaks of a third individual, of equal... | |
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The ermine is of the genus mustela, (weasel,) and resembles the common weasel in its form ; is from fourteen to sixteen inches from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail. The body is from ten to twelve inches long. 
