A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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Page ii
... frequently find in works of all sorts , but especially in books of travel , mention of Birds by names which no ordinary dictionary will explain ; and , on meeting with a Caracara , a Koel or a Paauw , a Leatherhead , a Mollymawk or a ...
... frequently find in works of all sorts , but especially in books of travel , mention of Birds by names which no ordinary dictionary will explain ; and , on meeting with a Caracara , a Koel or a Paauw , a Leatherhead , a Mollymawk or a ...
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... frequently defective.2 In 1866 Mr. D. G. Elliot began , and in 1869 finished , a sequel to Audubon's great work in two volumes , on the same scale - The New and hitherto Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America , containing life ...
... frequently defective.2 In 1866 Mr. D. G. Elliot began , and in 1869 finished , a sequel to Audubon's great work in two volumes , on the same scale - The New and hitherto Unfigured Species of the Birds of North America , containing life ...
Page 84
... frequently ossified . Of the Ægithognatha two divisions are made ( 1 ) CYPSELOMORPHE , and ( 2 ) CORACOMORPHÆ , 2 which last are separable into two groups , one ( a ) formed of the genus Menura ( LYRE - BIRD ) , which then seemed to ...
... frequently ossified . Of the Ægithognatha two divisions are made ( 1 ) CYPSELOMORPHE , and ( 2 ) CORACOMORPHÆ , 2 which last are separable into two groups , one ( a ) formed of the genus Menura ( LYRE - BIRD ) , which then seemed to ...
Page 91
... frequently to dissent from the conclusions at which they arrived , deeming them to have often been of a kind that , had their authors survived to a maturer age , they would have greatly modified . Still he well knows that learners are ...
... frequently to dissent from the conclusions at which they arrived , deeming them to have often been of a kind that , had their authors survived to a maturer age , they would have greatly modified . Still he well knows that learners are ...
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... frequently possesses a covering of involuntary or of voluntary muscles ; for instance , in Vultures , Gannets , and Flamingos a thin fan - shaped muscle extends from the furcula over the interclavicular air - sac . Through contraction ...
... frequently possesses a covering of involuntary or of voluntary muscles ; for instance , in Vultures , Gannets , and Flamingos a thin fan - shaped muscle extends from the furcula over the interclavicular air - sac . Through contraction ...
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