A Dictionary of Birds, 1–2. osaA. and C. Black, 1896 - 1212 pages |
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... appearance in the earliest written records of the human race , the painter's brush has preserved their counterfeit presentment for a still longer period . What is asserted — and that , so far as the writer is aware , without ...
... appearance in the earliest written records of the human race , the painter's brush has preserved their counterfeit presentment for a still longer period . What is asserted — and that , so far as the writer is aware , without ...
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... appearance , at Zurich in 1555 , of the third book of the illustrious Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium " qvi est de Auium natura , " and at Paris in the same year of Pierre Belon's ( Bellonius ) Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux ...
... appearance , at Zurich in 1555 , of the third book of the illustrious Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium " qvi est de Auium natura , " and at Paris in the same year of Pierre Belon's ( Bellonius ) Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux ...
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... appearance in France , where little had been done since Belon's days , 3 in six quarto volumes , of the Ornithologie of Mathurin Jacques Brisson — a work of very great merit so far as it goes , for as a descriptive ornithologist the ...
... appearance in France , where little had been done since Belon's days , 3 in six quarto volumes , of the Ornithologie of Mathurin Jacques Brisson — a work of very great merit so far as it goes , for as a descriptive ornithologist the ...
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... is , fails , however , in regard to some species . 3 His earlier work under the title of Petinotheologie can hardly be deemed scientific . Birds of the Hercynian Forest made its appearance at Pappenheim 16 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
... is , fails , however , in regard to some species . 3 His earlier work under the title of Petinotheologie can hardly be deemed scientific . Birds of the Hercynian Forest made its appearance at Pappenheim 16 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
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Alfred Newton, Hans Gadow. Birds of the Hercynian Forest made its appearance at Pappenheim in 1745. In 1756 Kramer published at Vienna a modest Elenchus of the plants and animals of Lower Austria , and J. D. Petersen produced at Altona ...
Alfred Newton, Hans Gadow. Birds of the Hercynian Forest made its appearance at Pappenheim in 1745. In 1756 Kramer published at Vienna a modest Elenchus of the plants and animals of Lower Austria , and J. D. Petersen produced at Altona ...
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