A Dictionary of Birds, 1–2. osaA. and C. Black, 1896 - 1212 pages |
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... the misleading name . 905 , line 34. Clearing away the matrix of the specimen has since shewn this septum ( cf. INTRODUCTION , page 108 , note ) . INTRODUCTION ORNITHOLOGY in its proper sense is the methodical study xii DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
... the misleading name . 905 , line 34. Clearing away the matrix of the specimen has since shewn this septum ( cf. INTRODUCTION , page 108 , note ) . INTRODUCTION ORNITHOLOGY in its proper sense is the methodical study xii DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
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... Specimen nouum , and in 1752 Möhring 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 ...
... Specimen nouum , and in 1752 Möhring 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 ...
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... specimens as came under his eye , distinguishing these by prefixing two asterisks to their name , using a single ... specimen he described , act- ing on a principle which would have been advantageously adopted by many of his ...
... specimens as came under his eye , distinguishing these by prefixing two asterisks to their name , using a single ... specimen he described , act- ing on a principle which would have been advantageously adopted by many of his ...
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... collection of the then Lord Stanley ( afterwards 13th Earl of Derby ) , and was , at his death in 1851 , bequeathed to the Liverpool Museum , or to Vienna ( Ibis , 1873 , pp . 14-54 , 105-124 ; 1874 , p . 461 ) . Of the specimens in the ...
... collection of the then Lord Stanley ( afterwards 13th Earl of Derby ) , and was , at his death in 1851 , bequeathed to the Liverpool Museum , or to Vienna ( Ibis , 1873 , pp . 14-54 , 105-124 ; 1874 , p . 461 ) . Of the specimens in the ...
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... animals of any distant country the zoologists who stay at home and study those of their own district , be it great or ... specimens that he could obtain . This explanation , poor as it is , fails , however , in regard to some species . 3 ...
... animals of any distant country the zoologists who stay at home and study those of their own district , be it great or ... specimens that he could obtain . This explanation , poor as it is , fails , however , in regard to some species . 3 ...
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