A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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... English book , and , what is better , a position whence he may extend his researches in many directions . It has been my object throughout to compress into the smallest compass the information intended to be conveyed . It would have ...
... English book , and , what is better , a position whence he may extend his researches in many directions . It has been my object throughout to compress into the smallest compass the information intended to be conveyed . It would have ...
Page xii
... English Sparrow in North America . Washington : 1889 ) continues the misleading name . 905 , line 34. Clearing away the matrix of the specimen has since shewn this septum ( cf. INTRODUCTION , page 108 , note ) . Parry L Melville Greely ...
... English Sparrow in North America . Washington : 1889 ) continues the misleading name . 905 , line 34. Clearing away the matrix of the specimen has since shewn this septum ( cf. INTRODUCTION , page 108 , note ) . Parry L Melville Greely ...
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... 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 discursive Historia Naturalis in ...
... 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 discursive Historia Naturalis in ...
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... English descriptions into Latin diagnoses , and bestowing on them binomial names . Hence it is that Gmelin appears as the authority for so much of the nomenclature now in use . He took many liberties with the details of 1 The ...
... English descriptions into Latin diagnoses , and bestowing on them binomial names . Hence it is that Gmelin appears as the authority for so much of the nomenclature now in use . He took many liberties with the details of 1 The ...
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... similar character is Fothergill's Ornithologia Britannica , a mere list of names , Latin and English , printed in small folio at York in 1799 . Worcestershire included a few ornithological notices ; and Walcott in 18 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
... similar character is Fothergill's Ornithologia Britannica , a mere list of names , Latin and English , printed in small folio at York in 1799 . Worcestershire included a few ornithological notices ; and Walcott in 18 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
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