There is the same need for a substitute for rasorial, which is only applicable to birds. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
This is a very peculiar and important character, since it plainly indicates the analogy of this form to _Ramphastos, Buceros_, [5] and numerous other rasorial types. ❋ Various (N/A)
Two pigeons and four species of quail are all the rasorial birds in the island; the true gallinaceous birds being wholly wanting. ❋ John West (1840)
If an animal, for example, is the suctorial member of a circle of species, forming the natatorial type of genera, forming a family or sub-family which in its turn is rasorial, its qualities must evidently be greatly mingled and ill to define. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
Amongst external characters, we generally find power of limbs and feet for locomotion on land, (to which the rasorial type is confined,) abundant tail and ornaments for the head, whether in the form of tufts, crests, horns, or bony excrescences. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
The rasorial type comprehends most of the animals which become domesticated and useful to man, as, first, the fowls which give a name to the type, the ungulata, and more particularly the ruminantia, among quadrupeds, and the dog among the ferae. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
Now, amongst individuals, some appear to be almost exclusively of the sub - typical, and others of the rasorial characters, while to a limited number is given the finely assorted assemblage of qualities which places them on a parallel with the typical. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
In the animal kingdom, the mollusca are the rasorial type, which, however, only shews itself there in their soft and sluggish character, and their being very generally edible. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
And for this idea there is, even in the present imperfect state of our knowledge of animated nature, some countenance in ascertained facts, the birds of Australia, for example, being chiefly of the suctorial type, while it may be presumed that the observation as to the predominance of the useful animals in the Old World, is not much different from saying that the rasorial type is there peculiarly abundant. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
In the ptilota, or winged insects, the hymenopterous are the rasorial type, and it is not therefore surprising to find amongst them the ants and bees, "the most social, intelligent, and in the latter case, most useful to man, of all the annulose animals." ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
With sanguinary, he has also gentle and domesticable dispositions, thus reflecting the characters of the ungulata, (the rasorial type of the class,) to which we perhaps see a further analogy in the use which he makes of the surface of the earth as a source of food. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
In canis, for instance, the bull-dog and mastiff represent the ferocious sub-typical group; the waterdog is natatorial; we see the speed and length of muzzle of the suctorial group in the greyhound; and the bushy tail and gentle and serviceable character of the rasorial in the shepherd's dog and spaniel. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
We have seen that the pre-eminent type is usually endowed with an harmonious assemblage of the mental qualities belonging to the whole group, while the sub-typical inclines to ferocity, the rasorial to gentleness, and so on. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
-- of my own, out of which every now and then, in a rasorial manner, I can scratch some savory or useful contents; -- one or two, it may be remembered, I collected for the behoof of the Bishop of ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
a few other rasorial types, noted for their serviceableness to our race, have the indefinite powers in no small endowment. ❋ Robert Chambers (1836)
