Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 2. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1867 |
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... bird . To the scientific world my furry friend is known as Tamias ( nearly as bad as Indian ) ; tamias being Greek for store - keeper , the generic title . The specific name tells us that he has four stripes , or " ribbons , " marking ...
... bird . To the scientific world my furry friend is known as Tamias ( nearly as bad as Indian ) ; tamias being Greek for store - keeper , the generic title . The specific name tells us that he has four stripes , or " ribbons , " marking ...
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... birds , and found that the head of the dead one had been entirely deprived of its feathers by its antagonist , but for ... bird still there , I took it up , and perceived that the back of its skull was broken , and all the brains scooped ...
... birds , and found that the head of the dead one had been entirely deprived of its feathers by its antagonist , but for ... bird still there , I took it up , and perceived that the back of its skull was broken , and all the brains scooped ...
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... bird in a cage too small for it to exercise its wings in , and , above all things , I have a horror of confining a lark , which is truly a creature of the upper firmament , in a low- roofed house , where it spends a considerable portion ...
... bird in a cage too small for it to exercise its wings in , and , above all things , I have a horror of confining a lark , which is truly a creature of the upper firmament , in a low- roofed house , where it spends a considerable portion ...
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... birds seem to have lived in New Zealand during this epoch . The Dinornis , which , if we may judge from the tibia ... bird . As to the Epiornis , the egg only has been found . " At the meeting of the Zoological Society , held on the ...
... birds seem to have lived in New Zealand during this epoch . The Dinornis , which , if we may judge from the tibia ... bird . As to the Epiornis , the egg only has been found . " At the meeting of the Zoological Society , held on the ...
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... bird at Scilly : - " It may be interesting to you to know that another example of Muscicapa parra , very nearly in the same state of plumage as its predecessor at Scilly , was captured on Sunday week at Trescoe Isle , Scilly . The ...
... bird at Scilly : - " It may be interesting to you to know that another example of Muscicapa parra , very nearly in the same state of plumage as its predecessor at Scilly , was captured on Sunday week at Trescoe Isle , Scilly . The ...
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