A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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... Birds of that colony , Florida and the Bahamas - the fore- runners of those numerous costly tomes which will have to be mentioned presently at greater length . Eleazar Albin between 1738 and 1740 produced a Natural History of Birds in ...
... Birds of that colony , Florida and the Bahamas - the fore- runners of those numerous costly tomes which will have to be mentioned presently at greater length . Eleazar Albin between 1738 and 1740 produced a Natural History of Birds in ...
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... Birds from the menagery of Child the banker at Osterley near London . The same draughtsman ( who had in 1775 produced a bad History of British Birds ) in 1822 began another series of Figures of rare and curious Birds.1 The practice of ...
... Birds from the menagery of Child the banker at Osterley near London . The same draughtsman ( who had in 1775 produced a bad History of British Birds ) in 1822 began another series of Figures of rare and curious Birds.1 The practice of ...
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... Birds , appeared between 1820 and 1821 , and in 1829 a Second Series of the same was begun by him , which , extending to another three volumes , contained 48 more plates of Birds out of 136 , and was completed in 1833. All the figures ...
... Birds , appeared between 1820 and 1821 , and in 1829 a Second Series of the same was begun by him , which , extending to another three volumes , contained 48 more plates of Birds out of 136 , and was completed in 1833. All the figures ...
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... Birds by Dr. Ramsay , Messrs . A. J. North , K. H. Bennett and others are to be found in the Records of the Australian Museum , the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales , of the Royal ... Birds of the 36 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
... Birds by Dr. Ramsay , Messrs . A. J. North , K. H. Bennett and others are to be found in the Records of the Australian Museum , the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales , of the Royal ... Birds of the 36 DICTIONARY OF BIRDS.
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... Birds of the Bahama Islands ( not strictly Antillean ) , published a List of the Birds of the West Indies , with a revised edition in the following year , and one still more elaborate , so that the words " List of " were dropped from ...
... Birds of the Bahama Islands ( not strictly Antillean ) , published a List of the Birds of the West Indies , with a revised edition in the following year , and one still more elaborate , so that the words " List of " were dropped from ...
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