Books with author Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN; GLIMPSES OF ANIMAL LIFE FROM THE AMCEBA TO THE INSECTS - 1881. LIFE AND HER CHILDREN LIFE IN THE-DEEP SEA . for description see Itst cfillustrat ons. His parent hand, From the mute shell-fish gaiping 011 the shore, To men, to angels, to celestial minds, For ever leads tile generations on To 11igher scenes of being 1s-hile supplied From day to day mith his enliveiling breath, Inferior orders in succession rise To fill the void below - PREFACE - THE plan of this work is so fully explained in the Introductory Chapter that but little preface is needed. Its main object is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of the lower forms of life and to do this in a more systematic way than is usual in ordinary works on Natural History, and more simply than in text-books on Zoology. For this reason I have adopted the title Life and her Children, to express the family bond uniting all living things, as we use the term Nature and her Works, to embrace all organic and inorganic phenomena and I have been more careful to sketch in bold outline the leading features of each division, than to dwell upon the minor differences by which it is separated into groups. I have made use of British examples in illustration wherever it was possible, and small specimens of most of the marine animals. figured Inay be found upon our coasts at low tide. In conclusion, I wish to express my great obligation to Mr. R. Garnett of the British Museum, for his most kind assistance in finding works of reference on the special subjects and to many men of science, especially Mr. Lowne, F. lI. C. S., and Mr. Haddon, Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, for their valuable criticisms on the proof-sheets. The Illustrations of the marine animals have been drawn by Dr. Wild, artist of the Challenger Expedition, and those of the insects by Mr. Edwin Wilson, to both of whom my thanks are due, for the care and assiduity with which they have carried out my instructions. ARABELL B A . B UCKLEY. CON CHAPTER I. PAGE LIFE AND HER CHILDREN . I CHAPTER 11. LIFES S1bl PLEST CHILDREN H , O W THEY LIVE, A ND MOVE, AND BUILD . . I4 CHAPTER 111. How SPONGE L S I VE . 33 CHAPTER IV. THE LASSO-THROWERS OF THE PONDS AND OCEANS . 50 CHAPTER V. How STAR-FI W I A I LK A ND SEA-URCHIN C S R OW . 17 CHAPTER VI. THE MANTLE-COVERED A NIMALS A , ND HOW THEY LIVE WITH HEADS A ND WITHOUT THEM . . . . 103 CHAPTER VII. TIIE O UTCASTS O F ANIMAL L IFE, A ND THE EI. ASTIC-RINGED A h - 1 3 1 1 B . Y SEA A ND BY LAND . F . I35 COIVTEN TS. Cl-IAPTER VIII. PAGE THE L I L E V D A R R I O I O F TIIE SEA, WITH RINGED B ODIES CHAPTER IX. TIIE S N ZRE--EA A V SD E T R II S E IR I UKTIN R G E I. AI I OKS . 178 CHAPTER X INSECI. SLCICER A S S1 1 UIIERS VIIICII CIIANGE TIIliTR CUATS BUT XOT IIIEII BOIII S . . 201 CI-IAPTEK XI. IXSI. CT SIPPER A S S 11 G S A E R W S H ICII REMODEL TIIEIR BODIES YITIIIS 1. III,. IR CO. I S . 233 CII, ZIITER XTI. INTELLIGENT ISSECI S IT 11 IIELPLESS C IIILDREN, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE ASTS D 8 269 TION PLATE I. LIFE IN THE DEEP SEA.-I. Sea-Lily, Pezzfac-rilltrs asferzia. 2. Sponge, Eup ecfelln aspergrIZunz. 3. Coral, Lopho-AeZia prol ra. 4. Sea-Urchin, Echinzrs elegans. 5. Basket-fish, Asto-Ophyfon linkii. 6. Sea-cucumber, adohactylcaro cca. 7. Jelly-fish, Pela3. ia zocfiZzrca. 8. Yteropod, Cliopyamidafa. PLATE 1 1. INSECLTIF E.-I. Ant-Lion in its pit with whole insect shown above. I a. Ant - lion flying. 2...

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Birds of the Air Birds We Know I wonder how many birds you know by sight, and what you could tell about their nests and their lives? There are between three and four hundred different British birds, and very few people know them all. But in any one place there are not more common birds than you could learn in a year. You can look for the rare ones afterwards. The best way to begin is to write down those you are sure about, and say how you recognise them. You cannot mistake a Robin, with his red breast, his plump little body, and his brown wings. The mother robin's breast is not quite so red, and the young have no red at all. But when you have seen them with the cock-robin, you will soon know them by their shape. But a Chaffinch has a red breast. How can you tell him from a robin? His breast is much browner than the robin's, and even at a distance you may know him by the white bands on his dark wings, and the yellow tips to some of his feathers. Then his body is longer, and he moves more gracefully than the robin, while his loud "pink, pink," if you go near his nest, will tell you at once what he is. The Lark you know by his slender brown body and white speckled throat, and by the way he soars, as he sings his sweet song. The common green Woodpecker is easily known by his bright colours, his curious feet, and his stiff tail, which he uses to jerk himself up a tree. And though a Nuthatch also goes up a tree by jumps, you would never take him for a woodpecker, for he is no bigger than a sparrow, and he has a short tail and blue-grey wings and a dingy red breast.

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