Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 13. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1877 |
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Page 121
... remarkable plumes from which it derives the specific name of Sexpennis . " I have , by the kind- ness of Mr. D'Albertis , now before me a beautiful and perfect pair of these birds , male and female , and observe that the plumage of the ...
... remarkable plumes from which it derives the specific name of Sexpennis . " I have , by the kind- ness of Mr. D'Albertis , now before me a beautiful and perfect pair of these birds , male and female , and observe that the plumage of the ...
Page 149
... remarkable of our migrants , the Goatsucker . Even if the bird itself has been overlooked in the shadows around , the curious jarring note characteristic of the species cannot fail to have been heard , seeming , perhaps , to come from ...
... remarkable of our migrants , the Goatsucker . Even if the bird itself has been overlooked in the shadows around , the curious jarring note characteristic of the species cannot fail to have been heard , seeming , perhaps , to come from ...
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... remarkable for the unique arrangement of its subdivided dorsal fin , and by the possession of a double cellular air - bladder , which most nearly approximates to the true lungs of the Dipnoi . It has least structural affinities with the ...
... remarkable for the unique arrangement of its subdivided dorsal fin , and by the possession of a double cellular air - bladder , which most nearly approximates to the true lungs of the Dipnoi . It has least structural affinities with the ...
Contents
HALFHOURS AT THE SEASIDE or Recreations with Marine Objects | 45 |
THE AQUARIUM its Inhabitants Structure and Management Illustrated | 186 |
NOTES ON COLLECTING AND PRESERVING NATURAL HISTORY OBJECTS | 211 |
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