If another member of the club snatches a fish first, the pelican doesn't bother, but devotes his attention to the next that Church throws; a fish in the pouch is worth a shoal in somebody else's.
The pouch is an elastic fishing-net, and the lower mandible is a mere flexible frame to carry it.
A young kangaroo or opossum is carried for some time after its birth in an external pouch on the mother's body and is a very helpless animal.
This pouch had, on the upper side, two broad stripes of dyed porcupine quills, and several very pretty rosettes, with long strings of different colours, and was lined with fur.
The pouch is made of leather, or cloth, often beautifully ornamented with beads, or porcupine quills, and is hung on the back by a piece of skin, or a broad strip of cloth of some lively colour.
So one day, when Polly Ann was gone across the ridge, I took down the long rifle from the buckhorns over the hearth, and the hunting knife and powder-horn and pouch beside it, and trudged up the slope to a game trail I discovered.
I can see him now, with his hunting shirt and leggings and moccasins; his powder horn, engraved with wondrous scenes; his bullet pouch and tomahawk and hunting knife.
The fetish is then placed in the sun to dry, and lastly replaced in the buckskin pouch with a blessing, afterward being duly returned to the Keeper of the Deer Medicine.
As before, he left his tobacco-pouch with his host, and the Musk-rat sent one of his children after him with the article.
Go and dig by that tree, and you shall find a tobacco-pouch with some tobacco in it, a pipe, and a flint.
The young beaver obeyed, and as Ictinike took the pouchfrom him he said: "Tell your father that he must visit me.
This bird is similar to the preceding, but larger and the pouch is reddish.
The bullet had struck a piece of leather in his shot-pouch and had only bruised him!
His two nurses were gone; so were his gun, horn, pouch that held his knife and flint and steel.
He tried to sit up; looked for his rifle, felt for his shot-pouch and powder-horn.
That kangaroo pouch is a success, and I wonder why nature did not provide pouches for all animals to carry their young in.
The female kangaroo is surely a wonder, and seems to be built on plans and specifications different from any other animal, cause she has got a fur-lined pouch on her stomach, just like a vest, that she carries her young in.
It also differs from them in not having a bony pouch in the throat.
This pouch is possibly the same as what Seba calls the Norwegian rat, of which he gives a figure and description.
He also corked up the bottle of water, which was kept from freezing by means of a fur pouch in which it was carried.
These eggs, instead of being expelled for incubation, remain in the mother's pouch until they are hatched.
The Marsupialia, so strangely distinguished by the membranous pouchin which they enclose their young, belong to America, and especially Australia.
The pellicle which forms this pouch is so thin, and so transparent, that you can distinguish the eggs within it.
Nor does the parental duty end here; for after the young are hatched and swim about by themselves, they seek refuge in the pouch during the early or infantile period of their life whenever danger threatens them.
Some authorities have not hesitated to express an opinion that the young are nourished within the pocket by some fluid or secretion from the pouch itself.
In thispouch the eggs laid by the females--which do not possess a pouch--are deposited, and are therein duly hatched.
At the root of the tail in the male Sea-horses, a curious littlepouch is seen.
They next got up on their steeds, and I took the pouch from the head of the bird.
I then threw my pouch on its head, and, strange to say, it lay down as still as a lamb.
The digitated carnivorous animals with fixed claws, and a pouch under their tails.
The digitated carnivorous genus with fixed claws, and a pouch under the tail; for the hyaena, civets, and the badger, do not exist in America.
A Rat who saw her puzzled, slily spoke-- "Your pouch was emptier then, before your fast you broke.
As the last of their number closed the door behind him, Father Rocus drew from his robe a rounded pouch of worn leather, and held it out to me.
None shall see her name except my messenger when he opens the despatch-pouch for delivery at Chihuahua.
Greatly to our disappointment, a few days brought us a parting from our noble friend Malgares, who turned over his instructions and despatch-pouch to a Captain Barelo.
The pouch may have had compartments like a modern purse.
Something like a pouch or wallet must have been used for the marked pebbles of the Stone Age and for pebble counting generally before the grooves and rods of the abacus were invented.
He shoved his pouch into McPherson's shaking hands.
He plucked feebly at his open shirt, and across his emaciated chest they saw the leather strap, to which, doubtless, the despatch-pouch was slung.
