A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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Page vii
... notice of several interesting subjects which bear more or less directly upon Ornithology . To name only a few of them - Insulation , Isomorphism , Reversion and the Struggle for Existence , as illustrated by Birds , were.
... notice of several interesting subjects which bear more or less directly upon Ornithology . To name only a few of them - Insulation , Isomorphism , Reversion and the Struggle for Existence , as illustrated by Birds , were.
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... notice . Trusting to the freedom from danger conferred by the power of flight , most Birds have no need to lurk hidden in dens , or to slink from place to place under shelter of the inequalities of the ground or of the vegetation which ...
... notice . Trusting to the freedom from danger conferred by the power of flight , most Birds have no need to lurk hidden in dens , or to slink from place to place under shelter of the inequalities of the ground or of the vegetation which ...
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... notice , though most of the illustrations , which are rude woodcuts , fail , even in the coloured copies , to give any precise indication of the species intended to be represented . The scientific degeneracy of this work is manifested ...
... notice , though most of the illustrations , which are rude woodcuts , fail , even in the coloured copies , to give any precise indication of the species intended to be represented . The scientific degeneracy of this work is manifested ...
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... notice here . Contemporary with these three men was Ulysses Aldrovandus , a Bolognese , who wrote an Historia Naturalium in sixteen folio volumes , most of which were not printed till after his death in 1605 ; but the three on Birds ...
... notice here . Contemporary with these three men was Ulysses Aldrovandus , a Bolognese , who wrote an Historia Naturalium in sixteen folio volumes , most of which were not printed till after his death in 1605 ; but the three on Birds ...
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... notice of the older works on Ornithotomy is given by Prof. Selenka in the introduction to that portion of Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs relating to Birds ( pp . 1-9 ) published in 1869 ; and Prof. Carus's Geschichte der ...
... notice of the older works on Ornithotomy is given by Prof. Selenka in the introduction to that portion of Bronn's Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs relating to Birds ( pp . 1-9 ) published in 1869 ; and Prof. Carus's Geschichte der ...
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