A Dictionary of Birds, 1–2. osaA. and C. Black, 1896 - 1212 pages |
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Page xii
... commonly so called is C. cristata ( cf. Salvadori , Cat . B. Brit . Mus . xxvii . pp . 4-7 ) . 2 , after the insert Mountain- or . 24 , after for insert Myzantha garrula , M. flavigula and ; for sanguinoleuta read sanguinolenta . 893 ...
... commonly so called is C. cristata ( cf. Salvadori , Cat . B. Brit . Mus . xxvii . pp . 4-7 ) . 2 , after the insert Mountain- or . 24 , after for insert Myzantha garrula , M. flavigula and ; for sanguinoleuta read sanguinolenta . 893 ...
Page 3
... commonly known as Pliny the Elder , who died A.D. 79 , author of a general and very discursive Historia Naturalis in thirty - seven books , of which most of Book X. is devoted to Birds . A considerable portion of Pliny's work may be ...
... commonly known as Pliny the Elder , who died A.D. 79 , author of a general and very discursive Historia Naturalis in thirty - seven books , of which most of Book X. is devoted to Birds . A considerable portion of Pliny's work may be ...
Page 23
... commonly assigned by geographers to that part of the world . In 1805 Anselme Desmarest published a Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras , des Manakins et des Todiers , which , though belonging to the same category as all the former , differs ...
... commonly assigned by geographers to that part of the world . In 1805 Anselme Desmarest published a Histoire Naturelle des Tangaras , des Manakins et des Todiers , which , though belonging to the same category as all the former , differs ...
Page 28
... commonly known collectively as his Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel.2 Herein are contained more than 900 coloured and more than 100 uncoloured plates , which are crowded with the figures of Birds , a large proportion of them ...
... commonly known collectively as his Vollständigste Naturgeschichte der Vögel.2 Herein are contained more than 900 coloured and more than 100 uncoloured plates , which are crowded with the figures of Birds , a large proportion of them ...
Page 59
... commonly only two centres of ossification - the side - pieces of the middle rank ; but as these grow to meet one another a distinct median " noyau , " also of the same rank , sometimes appears , which soon forms a connexion with each of ...
... commonly only two centres of ossification - the side - pieces of the middle rank ; but as these grow to meet one another a distinct median " noyau , " also of the same rank , sometimes appears , which soon forms a connexion with each of ...
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