Crossword-Solution: WOODLOUSE 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The following list completes, I believe, the terrestrial fauna: a fly (Olfersia) living on the booby, and a tick which must have come here as a parasite on the birds; a small brown moth, belonging to a genus that feeds on feathers; a beetle (Quedius) and a woodlouse from beneath the dung; and lastly, numerous spiders, which I suppose prey on these small attendants and scavengers of the water-fowl.

Where once the kind warm curtain hung The spider’s ghostly cloth is flung; The beetle and the woodlouse creep Where once I loved your lovely sleep.

Professor Woodlouse was requested to add to and extend the tree's name so as to make it suggest the musical quality it possessed--which he did, furnishing the addition Anthem Singer, done into the Mastodon tongue.

Professor Woodlouse thought that he and his brother scholars, by lying hid and being quiet, might maybe catch a live one.

The chief philologist, Professor Woodlouse, maintained that they were writings, done in a character utterly unknown to scholars, and in a language equally unknown.