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SUGAR-BIRD, the English name commonly given in the West India Islands to the various members of the genus Certhiola, (belonging to the Passerine family Coerebidae1) for their habit of frequenting the curing-houses where sugar is kept, apparently attracted thit ...

SUN-BIRD, a name more or less in use for many years,1 and now generally accepted as that of a group of over 100 species of small birds, but when or by whom it was first applied is uncertain. Those known to the older naturalists were for a long while referred t ...

SUGAR, in chemistry, the generic name for a certain series of carbohydrates, i.e. substances of the general formula Cn(H2O)m. Formerly the name was given to compounds having a sweet taste, e.g. sugar of lead, but it is now restricted to certain oxyaldehydes an ...

... the temperature of the latter. Those animals high in the scale of evolution, as birds and mammals, have a high temperature almost constant and independent of that of the surrounding air, whereas among the lower animals there is much variation of body temperatu ...

... s, weasels and the like. Eagles and hawks are common, and many kinds of singing birds. The rivers and lakes abound in different kinds of fish, which are also plentiful on the sea-coast. Among the insects the bee and the silkworm are the most useful. The leech ...

... y tuff 580 ,, Blackrock diabase (cones and dikes). Longmeadow sandstone 1000 ,, Sugarloaf arkose 4660 ,, Mount Toby conglomerate. Unconformity. $ Devonian. Bernardston series 1950 ft. Unconformity. Silurian. Leyden argillite 300 ft. Conway schist 1 Amherst sch ...

... ers; the sand-hill crane is less common than formerly. A few varieties of shore birds breed here, as the Western willet, the Bartramian sandpiper, and the longbilled curlew. Gambel's partridge is resident in the southern part of the state, and the sage-hen and ...

... per Burma. The staple crop of the province is rice, along with cotton, tobacco, sugar, hemp and indigo. The forests produce abundance of excellent oak and teak timber. The natives of Arakan trace their history as far back as 2666 B.C., and give a lineal succes ...

... mineral resources. Amongst the cultivated products are mealies and manioc, the sugar-cane and cotton, coffee and tobacco plants. The chief exports are coffee, rubber, wax, palm kernels and palm-oil, cattle and hides and dried or salt fish. Gold dust, cotton, ...

... . Seal Island and Penguin Island are in the bay, Ichaboe, Mercury, and Hollam's Bird islands are to the north; Halifax, Long, Possession, Albatross, Pomona, Plumpudding, and Roastbeef islands are to the south. On these islands are guano deposits; the most valu ...

... , and salt works are abundant. Of the manufactures of Anholt, the chief ore its sugar factories, distilleries, breweries and chemical works. Commerce is brisk, especially in raw products — corn, cattle, timber or wool. Coal (lignite), guano, oil and bricks are ...

... s. The common use of the word animal as the equivalent of mammal, as opposed to bird or reptile or fish, is erroneous. The classification of the animal kingdom is dealt with in the article ZOOLOGY. (P. C. M.)

... are conceived in animal form. (See Goat, below.) (viii.) The ominous animal or bird may develop into a deity. (See Hawk, below.) (ix.) It is commonly assumed that the animals associated with certain deities are sacred because the god was originally theriomorp ...

... tower, 335 ft. high. The industries consist of iron-foundries and factories for sugar and soap; and there is a military school. The Peene is navigable up to the town, which has a considerable trade in its own manufactures, as well as in the produce of the surr ...

... (1774-1843) in his Lailo and Manuel. Woollen fabrics are manufactured, and the sugar industry established in 1800 employs several thousand hands; but the majority of the inhabitants are occupied by the trade in grain, fruit, wine and oil. Marble is quarried; ...

... oductions are very similar to those of Ayacucho (q.v.), with the exception that sugar-cane is cultivated with noteworthy success in the low valley of the province of Abancay. The capital, Abancay, 1 10 m. south-west of Cuzco, which is only a village in size bu ...

... ed on either side, and on the tendrils of these scrolls are suspended or placed birds and animals, human figures and chimeras, of any or all kinds, or indeed any objects that may take the fancy of the artist. The most perfect specimens of cinquecento Arabesque ...

... s vicinity, and the country tributary to this port produces large quantities of sugar. Cotton is also grown, and the back country sends down hides and skins for shipment. The anchorage is good, but a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river prevents the entranc ...

... consequence. Cattle, swine and goats are raised, and the state produces coffee, sugar, cacao, beans, cereals and cheese. The climate of the higher valleys is subtropical, the mean annual temperature ranging from 74° to 80° F. The capital, La Victoria (pop. 780 ...

... agined, not amounting to a hundred species of quadrupeds, nor to two hundred of birds. . . . Zoologists usually reckon but an hundred and seventy species in all." The progress of the " higher criticism," and the gradual surrender of attempts to square scientif ...

... s occurred in Lancashire, which was traced to beer made from glucose and invert sugar, in the preparation of which sulphuric acid contaminated with arsenic was said to have been used. But the nature of the disease in this case was decidedly obscure. The sympto ...

... tance, speaks of boughs shaken by the wind, but not so violently as to make the birds forgo their Art — " Non per6 dal lor esser dritto sparte Tanto, che gl' augeiletti per le cime Lasciasser d' operar ogni lor arte." And Fontenelle, speaking in the language n ...

... s and superior mesenteric arteries rise from the abdominal aorta in Man. In the Birds the right fourth arch alone remains as the aorta, the dorsal part of the left corresponding arch being obliterated. From the arch of the aorta rise two symmetrical innominate ...

... Evangelical church, an agricultural college and some manufactures of machinery, sugar and boots. Its brine springs, known as early as the isth century, are still frequented.

... ate tasks, and executed them supremely well, with the indispensable aid of John Bird (1709-1776), who constructed for him an 8-ft. quadrant of unsurpassed quality. Bradley's store of observations has accordingly proved invaluable. Those of 3222 stars, reduced ...

... hill is terraced with former native fortifications. Auckland has industries of sugar-refining, ship-building and paper-, rope- and brick-making, and timber is worked. The town was founded as capital of the colony in 1840 by Governor Hobson. There is communica ...

... and gave himself up to the study of natural history, and especially to drawing birds. In 1826 he went to England in the hope of getting his drawings published, and by the following year he had obtained sufficient subscribers to enable him to begin the publica ...

... certain definite cases. 1 There is no doubt that ouspex—avi-spex (" observer of birds "). but the derivation of augur is still unsettled. The following have been suggested: (l) augur (or augus) is a substantive originally meaning " increase " (related to augus ...

... resemblance of form, nature or meaning. It is a curious fact that not a single bird is visible on the fragments, and the trees and plants, which might easily have been collected in a compact and well-defined section, are widely scattered. Why the alphabetic c ...

... e lightness and elasticity, is in great request for filling bed-coverlets. This bird generally frequents low rocky islets near the coast, and in Iceland and Norway has long been afforded every encouragement and protection, a fine being inflicted for killing it ...

... stries include brewing, weaving and the manufacture of cloth, carpets, tobacco, sugar, leather-grease, toys and roofingfelt. Einbeck grew up originally round the monastery of St Alexander (founded 1080), famous for its relic of the True Blood. It is first reco ...

... of the modern Khuzistan, though Mordtmann would derive the latter from Jj2^ " a sugar-reed." Immediately bordering on the Persians were the Amardians or Mardians, as well as the people of Khapirti (Khatamti, according to Scheil), the name given to Susiana in t ...

... ubject in his mind, and waited for thoughts and illustrations to come to it, as birds or insects to a plant or flower. When an idea appeared, he followed it, " as a boy might hunt a butterfly"; when it was captured he pinned it in his " Thought-book." The writ ...

... ame which has in turn been applied to each of the earlier-known forms of Ratite birds, but has finally settled upon that which inhabits Australia, though, up to the close of the i8th century, it was given by most authors to the bird now commonly called cassowa ...

... became a skilled and enthusiastic collector, particularly of African plants and birds. When he was four-and-twenty he determined to seek his fortunes abroad, and made his way to Turkey, where, after practising medicine on his own account for a short time, he w ...

... ive opossum, is noteworthy on account of its wide geographical range. Among the birds, the large flightless forms, Eupterornis, Gastornis, were prominent, and many others were present, such as the ancestral forms of our modern gulls, albatrosses, herons, buzza ...

... n Railway Company has important workshops here. Brewing, and the manufacture of sugar and of hats and caps, are also carried on. Epernay is the seat of a sub-prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, and communal colleges for girls and boys. ...

... ouch nor for the performance of complicated movements, such as some mammals and birds and fishes, the guiding sensations depend largely on the sense of vision. This sense in man, instead of assisting, sometimes disturbs the guiding sensation. It is true that i ...

... . It is the commercial centre of a fertile district, which produces coffee, canesugar and cocoa; it has also a brisk transit trade in most of the products of Guatemala, owing to its position on the interoceanic railway between Puerto Barrios on the Atlantic an ...

... the hair inside, the other with it outside. They also sometimes wear shirts of bird-skins, and stockings of dog or young reindeer skins. Their clothes are very neatly made, fit beautifully, and are sewn with " sinewthread," with a bone needle if a steel one c ...