A Dictionary of Birds, 1–2. osaA. and C. Black, 1896 - 1212 pages |
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... published . Two wretched English translations have appeared.1 Next in order of date , though at a long interval , comes Gaius Plinius Secundus , commonly known as Pliny the Elder , who died A.D. 79 , author of a general and very ...
... published . Two wretched English translations have appeared.1 Next in order of date , though at a long interval , comes Gaius Plinius Secundus , commonly known as Pliny the Elder , who died A.D. 79 , author of a general and very ...
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... published at Paris in 1552 , treats of Birds ; but his work is merely a compilation from Aristotle and Pliny , with references to other classical writers who have more or less incidentally mentioned Birds and other animals . The author ...
... published at Paris in 1552 , treats of Birds ; but his work is merely a compilation from Aristotle and Pliny , with references to other classical writers who have more or less incidentally mentioned Birds and other animals . The author ...
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... published at Nuremberg two treatises , in one of which the internal structure of Birds in general is very creditably de- scribed , while in the other the osteology and myology of certain forms is given in considerable detail , and ...
... published at Nuremberg two treatises , in one of which the internal structure of Birds in general is very creditably de- scribed , while in the other the osteology and myology of certain forms is given in considerable detail , and ...
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... published the Ornithologia in Latin in 1676 , and in English with many emendations in 1678. In this work Birds generally were grouped in two great divisions- " Land - Fowl " and " Water - Fowl , " — the former being subdivided into ...
... published the Ornithologia in Latin in 1676 , and in English with many emendations in 1678. In this work Birds generally were grouped in two great divisions- " Land - Fowl " and " Water - Fowl , " — the former being subdivided into ...
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... published at Aurich one still smaller , his Avium Genera . Both these works ( now rare ) are manifestly framed on the Linnæan method , so far as it had then reached ; but in their arrangement of the various forms of Birds they differed ...
... published at Aurich one still smaller , his Avium Genera . Both these works ( now rare ) are manifestly framed on the Linnæan method , so far as it had then reached ; but in their arrangement of the various forms of Birds they differed ...
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