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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... observed they carefully collected fragments of rag , and pieces of paper left by the sawyers ; so , to gratify this taste for the use of novel material , I brought out continually small bundles , composed of coloured threads , rags ...
... observed they carefully collected fragments of rag , and pieces of paper left by the sawyers ; so , to gratify this taste for the use of novel material , I brought out continually small bundles , composed of coloured threads , rags ...
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... observation , and so , if there is any error , I must be accountable for it . It was a long time before I could ... observe that these pellets are also cast up when he has had nothing but soft raw flesh to eat ; they then consist mostly ...
... observation , and so , if there is any error , I must be accountable for it . It was a long time before I could ... observe that these pellets are also cast up when he has had nothing but soft raw flesh to eat ; they then consist mostly ...
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... observed in the sand near a large stone . To this hole one of the males was paying the most assiduous and extraordi- nary attentions : he would poise himself at an angle of forty - five degrees or thereabout , and commence a tremendous ...
... observed in the sand near a large stone . To this hole one of the males was paying the most assiduous and extraordi- nary attentions : he would poise himself at an angle of forty - five degrees or thereabout , and commence a tremendous ...
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... observations respecting the Greater Spotted Wood - pecker , which had attracted my notice when in Oaxaca forty years and as I consider wood - peckers exceedingly ago ; clever birds , and capable of performing acts that would seem to ...
... observations respecting the Greater Spotted Wood - pecker , which had attracted my notice when in Oaxaca forty years and as I consider wood - peckers exceedingly ago ; clever birds , and capable of performing acts that would seem to ...
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... observation sets it in a clear light . A stout fly became entangled in the web of a spider : quick as lightning , out darts the spider and seizes the fly , and equally quick was the interference to the rescue ; it was relieved and set ...
... observation sets it in a clear light . A stout fly became entangled in the web of a spider : quick as lightning , out darts the spider and seizes the fly , and equally quick was the interference to the rescue ; it was relieved and set ...
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