 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 854 pages
...each shoulder had become perfectly white. Next day the shoulder-patches had considerably extended, and the posterior part of the body and flanks had turned to a dirty white. At the end of a week the winter change was complete, with the exception of a dark band across the shoulders... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 472 pages
...perfectly white. On the following day the patches on each shoulder had extended considerably, and on the posterior part of the body and flanks had turned...continued but slowly, and at the end of a week it wa« entirely white, with the exception of a dark band across the shoulders, prolonged posteriorly... | |
 | Thomas Bell - Cetacea - 1837 - 554 pages
...patch on each shoulder had become perfectly white. On the following day the patches on the shoulders had extended considerably, and the posterior part...of the body and flanks had turned to a dirty white. At the end of a week it was entirely white, with the exception of a dark band across the shoulders,... | |
 | Geology - 1857 - 532 pages
...each shoulder had become perfectly white. Next day the shoulder-patches had considerably extended, and the posterior part of the body and flanks had turned to a dirty white. At the end of a week the winter change was complete, with the exception of a dark band across the shoulders... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1865 - 588 pages
...second day those patches had extended, and the posterior part of the 264 FURS AND THEIR PBEPARATIONS. body and flanks had turned to a dirty white. During the next four days the changes continued, and at the end of •» week the animal was entirely white. On examining the skin... | |
 | Horace Middleton Vernon - Variation (Biology) - 1902 - 442 pages
...patch on each shoulder became perfectly white during the first night. After another day's exposure " the patches on each shoulder had extended considerably, and the posterior part of the body and the flanks had turned a dirty white. . . At the end of a week it was entirely white, with the exception... | |
 | Horace Middleton Vernon - Variation (Biology). - 1902 - 440 pages
...patch on each shoulder became perfectly white during the first night. After another day's exposure " the patches on each shoulder had extended considerably, and the posterior part of the body and the flanks had turned a dirty white. . . At the end of a week it was entirely white, with the exception... | |
 | Entomology - 1917 - 974 pages
...become perfectly white. On the follouing day the patches on each shoulder had extended considerabl)-, and the posterior part of the body and flanks had...next four days the change continued but slowly, and ät the end of a week it was enttrely white, \\ith the exception of a dark band across the shoulders,... | |
 | Entomology - 1918 - 578 pages
...next morning, after having been exposed to a temperature of 30° below zero, the fur on the checks and a patch on each shoulder had become perfectly...next four days the change continued but slowly, and ät the end of a week it was entirely white, with the exception of a dark band across the shoulders,... | |
 | Wales - 1888 - 330 pages
...the for on the cheeks and a patch on each shoulder bad become perfectly white. On the following day part of the body and flanks had turned to a dirty white ; at the end of the week it was entirely white, with the exception of a dark band across the ihooldera.... | |
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February ; and next morning, after having been exposed to a temperature of 30° below zero, the fur on the cheeks and a patch on each shoulder had become perfectly white. On the following day... 