A Dictionary of Birds, 1. osaA. and C. Black, 1899 - 1212 pages |
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Page iii
... possess ; yet with all these drawbacks and shortcomings I trust that this Dictionary will aid a few who wish to study Ornithology in a scientific spirit , as well as many who merely regard its pursuit as a pastime , while I even dare ...
... possess ; yet with all these drawbacks and shortcomings I trust that this Dictionary will aid a few who wish to study Ornithology in a scientific spirit , as well as many who merely regard its pursuit as a pastime , while I even dare ...
Page vii
... possess . Still I cannot but regret having to omit any special 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 ...
... possess . Still I cannot but regret having to omit any special 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 ...
Page 11
... possess the inborn faculty of picking out the characters wherein one species differs from another . His opportunities of becoming acquainted with Birds were hardly inferior to Brisson's , for during Latham's long lifetime there poured ...
... possess the inborn faculty of picking out the characters wherein one species differs from another . His opportunities of becoming acquainted with Birds were hardly inferior to Brisson's , for during Latham's long lifetime there poured ...
Page 13
... possess one . In like manner in 1786 , Scopoli - already the author of a little book published at Leipzig in 1769 under the title of Annus I. Historico - naturalis , in which are described many Birds , mostly from his own collection or ...
... possess one . In like manner in 1786 , Scopoli - already the author of a little book published at Leipzig in 1769 under the title of Annus I. Historico - naturalis , in which are described many Birds , mostly from his own collection or ...
Page 18
... possess is , as already stated , that in Merrett's Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum , printed in London in 1666.3 In 1677 Plot published his Natural History of Oxfordshire , which reached a second edition in 1705 , and in 1686 that ...
... possess is , as already stated , that in Merrett's Pinax Rerum Naturalium Britannicarum , printed in London in 1666.3 In 1677 Plot published his Natural History of Oxfordshire , which reached a second edition in 1705 , and in 1686 that ...
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