A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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... appearance , at Zurich in 1555 , of the third book of the illustrious Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium " qvi est de Auium natura , ” and at Paris in the same year of Pierre Belon's ( Bellonius ) Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux ...
... appearance , at Zurich in 1555 , of the third book of the illustrious Conrad Gesner's Historia Animalium " qvi est de Auium natura , ” and at Paris in the same year of Pierre Belon's ( Bellonius ) Histoire de la nature des Oyseaux ...
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... appearance in France , where little had been done since Belon's days , 3 in six quarto volumes , of the Ornithologie of Mathurin Jacques Brisson - a work of very great merit so far as it goes , for as a descriptive ornithologist the ...
... appearance in France , where little had been done since Belon's days , 3 in six quarto volumes , of the Ornithologie of Mathurin Jacques Brisson - a work of very great merit so far as it goes , for as a descriptive ornithologist the ...
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... appearance in 1825 , and must be mentioned here , though , strictly speaking , much of the country he traversed was not British territory . To Dr. Cabanis we are indebted for the ornithological results of Richard Schomburgk's researches ...
... appearance in 1825 , and must be mentioned here , though , strictly speaking , much of the country he traversed was not British territory . To Dr. Cabanis we are indebted for the ornithological results of Richard Schomburgk's researches ...
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... appearance of detached portions of calcareous matter at the base of the still cartilaginous keel in Ducks at a certain age , he seemed to consider this an individual peculiarity . This fact was fastened upon by Geoffroy in his reply ...
... appearance of detached portions of calcareous matter at the base of the still cartilaginous keel in Ducks at a certain age , he seemed to consider this an individual peculiarity . This fact was fastened upon by Geoffroy in his reply ...
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... appearance at Calcutta in 1849 ; but , from the time of his arrival in India , the onerous duties imposed upon Blyth , together with the want of sufficient books of reference , seem to have hindered him from seriously continuing his ...
... appearance at Calcutta in 1849 ; but , from the time of his arrival in India , the onerous duties imposed upon Blyth , together with the want of sufficient books of reference , seem to have hindered him from seriously continuing his ...
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