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long, and strong ; and under it hangs a 

 downy pouch or bag, like a dewlap, which 

 is capable of being inflated ; the upper part 

 of the bird is of an ash-grey colour, and the 

 under part white. The voracity of the Ad- 

 jutant is not more extraordinary than its 

 capacity for swallowing : it makes but one 

 mouthful of a rabbit, a fowl, or even a small 

 leg of mutton ; and when domesticated its 



habits of purloining render it necessary to 

 all kinds of provision out of its reach. 



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Dr. Latham observes that these birds in their 

 wild state live in companies, and when 

 seen at a distance, near the mouths of rivers, 

 coming towards an observer, which they 

 often do with their wings extended, " may 

 well be taken for canoes upon the surface of 

 a smooth sea : when on the sand-banks, for 

 men and women picking up shell-fish or 

 other tilings on the beach." 



ADONIS BUTTERFLY. [See FOLY- 



OMMATUS.] 



A genus of Isopodous Crustacea, 

 parasitic on fish hence 

 frequently called Fish- 

 lice. They are found in 

 all parts of the world. In 

 Newfoundland the fisher- 

 men call the species fish- 

 doctors, and believe that 

 the soft matter (mixed 

 with eggs) found on the 

 under side of the body of 

 the females, is very useful 

 in healing wounds. The 

 adjoining cut will give 

 some idea of the form of 

 the species of this genus, which have the 

 eyes generally large and approximating in 

 front. 



FISH-LOUSE. 



A family of Heterocerous 

 Lepidoptera, comprising a moderate number 

 of interesting insects, whose resemblance to 

 various Ilymenoptera and Diptera (owing to 



the elongate form of the body, and the naked- 

 ness of the wings, which are more or less 

 transparent in many of the species) is some- 

 hat remarkable. The antennae are simple, 

 fusiform, or thickened towards the tips, and 

 generally terminated by a small pencil of 

 hairs ; the ocelli are distinct, and the labial 

 palpi elevated ; the abdomen is elongated ; 

 the wings have but comparatively few ner- 

 vures; and the posterior legs are furnished 

 with very long spurs The larvae of these 

 insects are of a cylindrical form, and with 

 naked bodies destitute of a caudal horn: they 

 have six pectoral, eight ventral, and two anal 

 feet. They live in the interior of the branches 

 or roots of trees, where they undergo their 

 transformations to chrysalides, whose abdo- 

 minal segments are armed with transverse 

 rows of recurved points: these enable the 

 chrysalis to push itself not only through the 

 cocoon which the caterpillar had constructed 

 from the decayed roots or branches, but half 

 out of the hole in the stem previously made, 

 it having had the instinct to turn round in 

 its burrow, so that the head of the pupa 

 should be towards the orifice. 



The larvse of some species, such as the 

 jEgeria culidformis and jE.formictformis, 

 feed upon the apple, and that of ^Egeria 

 tijtultformis upon the pith of currant trees ; 

 in the neighbourhood of which the perfect 

 insects may be seen flying, in the hottest 

 sunshine, with great activity, or basking 

 upon the leaves, alternately expanding and 

 shutting the fan-like glossy appendages of 

 hair which decorate the end of the body. 



JEGITH ALUS. A name given to a genus 

 of birds (the PencMous Titmice) of the order 

 Passerinae. [See TITMOUSE.] 



^GOTHELES. A name given to a 

 genus of Passerine birds, distinguished by 

 long tarsi, and toes apparently fitted for 

 hopping from bough to bough ; the wings 

 comparatively short. The only known species 

 inhabits Australia, and is the Caprimulffus 

 Novae Hollandice of Phillips. In the day it 

 resorts to the hollow branches of trees (or 

 spouts as they are called), and holes of the 

 gum trees. It feeds on the smaller Coleop- 

 tera. Its flight is straight ; lays four or five 

 white eggs, which are nearly round; and 

 has at least two broods a year. 



JEQUOREA. [See ACALIPHA.] 



AGAMA : AGAMHXE. A genus and 

 family of Saurian Reptiles. They have 

 thick bodies covered with a loose skin, which 

 is capable of being distended with air, at the 

 will of the animal ; the head is short, broad, 

 and flat ; the neck also is short, and the tail 

 seldom longer than the bqdy. Different spe- 

 cies of them are to be met with in every cli- 

 mate ; and as some are capable of changing 

 the colours of their skin, they are in some 

 parts of South America called chameleons. 

 They generally lurk among rocks, heaps of 

 stones, and mouldering ruins, their dull and 

 sombre colours protecting them from observa- 

 tion: the more slender and active kinds, how- 

 ever, ascend trees with great facility, sport 

 among the branches, and feed upon the 

 insects which are generally to be found there 



