Burchell informs me that it is the best food of any of the genus at the Cape, being the only one which is moist and has any fat intermixed with the muscle ; the flesh of the others is dry and hard. At Knowsley it breeds with the facility of domestic cattle,... Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London - Seite 144von Zoological Society of London - 1850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1847 - 510 Seiten
...species is distinguished from the Cape Eland by the neck and front part of the underside, and a large spot on the front and hinder side of the upper part of the fore-legs (and the fetlock) as well as the dorsal line being black, and by the side being ornamented... | |
| Zoological Society of London - 1850 - 408 Seiten
...xii. t. 46 b.— Canna, Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 12. — Eland, Kolbe, Sparmann,' K. Vet. Handl. 1 779, t. 8 ; Harris, WAA t. 6 ; Daniel, Afr. Seen. t. ....front of the shoulder, narrowed above ; fourteen or fifteen narrow, waved, perpendicular streaks on each side of the body white ; withers with intermixed... | |
| 1851 - 566 Seiten
...12.—Eland, Kolbe, Sparmann, K. Vet. Handl. 1779, t. 8 ; Harris, WAA t. 6 ; Daniel, Afr. Seen. t. . chell informs me that it is the best food of any of the...front of the shoulder, narrowed above ; fourteen or fifteen narrow, waved, perpendicular streaks on each side of the body white ; withers with intermixed... | |
| 1850 - 312 Seiten
...HN xii. t. 46 b.—Canna, Buffon, Supp. iii. t. 12.—Eland, Kolbe, Sparmann, K. Vet. Handl. 1779, t. 8 ; Harris, WAA t. 6 ; Daniel, Afr. Seen. t. ....front of the shoulder, narrowed above ; fourteen or fifteen narrow, waved, perpendicular streaks on each side of the body white ; withers with intermixed... | |
| 1848 - 1022 Seiten
...species is distinguished from the Cape Eland by the neck and front part of the under side, and a large spot on the front and hinder side of the upper part of the fore-legs (and the fetlock) as well as the dorsal line being black, and by the side being ornamented... | |
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