 | Gilbert White - 1833 - Liczba stron: 410
...animation and spirit. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by these little tyrants, who guard their territories with the strictest vigilance, and the slightest invasion brings on invariably a battle. A strange alteration immediately takes place in the defeated party :... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - Liczba stron: 392
...animation and spirit. I have occasionally known three or four parts ol the tub taken possession of by these little tyrants, who guard their territories with the strictest vigilance, and the slightest invasion b- ings on invariably a battle. A strange alteration immediately takes place in the defeated party... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1836 - Liczba stron: 454
...that he sank to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...whom, as far as I have observed, they are unmolested." The woodcut represents this species of the natural size. Their appetite is voracious ; their food consists... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - Liczba stron: 602
...that he sank to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...brilliant colours of the male, by whom, as far as 1 have observed, they are unmolested.' — vol. i. pp. 77, 78. These little fishes swarm in some places,... | |
 | 1837 - Liczba stron: 704
...that he sank to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...and the slightest invasion invariably brings on a battle.'—ib., pp. 77, 78. Such is their idea of domestic peace. Happy is the man to whose lot it... | |
 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - 1838 - Liczba stron: 664
...the habits of the male fish alone ; the females are quite pacific, appear fat, as full of roe, and never assume the brilliant colours of the male, by...as far as I have observed, they are unmolested.'^ However plentiful this species may be on some parts of * Enoycloptedia Brilannica, article Ichthyology.... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 636
...that he sunk to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...guard their territories with the strictest vigilance. These are the habits of the male fish alone ; the females are quite pacific, appear fat, as full of... | |
 | 1830 - Liczba stron: 596
...appearance full of animation and spirit. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...their territories with the strictest vigilance, and any the slightest invasion brings on invariably a battle. As may be expected, they usually fight best... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1841 - Liczba stron: 524
...that he sank to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who...whom, as far as I have observed, they are unmolested." The woodcut represents this species of the natural size. Their appetite is voracious ; their food consists... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - Liczba stron: 536
...occasionally known three or four parts of ths tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, wba guard their territories with the strictest vigilance...slightest invasion invariably brings on a battle. These »re the habits of the male fish alone; the females are <jui» pacific; appear fat, as if full of roe;... | |
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I have seen one during a battle absolutely rip his opponent quite open, so that he sank to the bottom and died. I have occasionally known three or four parts of the tub taken possession of by as many other little tyrants, who guard their territories with... 
