The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith R.S. Peale, 1890 |
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... common consent allowed to be that almost cosmopolitan species to which unfortunately the English epithet peregrine " ( ie . , strange or wandering ) has been attached . It is the Falco peregrinus of Tunstall ( 1771 ) and of most recent ...
... common consent allowed to be that almost cosmopolitan species to which unfortunately the English epithet peregrine " ( ie . , strange or wandering ) has been attached . It is the Falco peregrinus of Tunstall ( 1771 ) and of most recent ...
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... common . The darker markings of their plumage are longi- tudiral before the first real moult takes place , and for ever afterwards are transverse . In other words , when young the markings are in form of stripes , when old in form of ...
... common . The darker markings of their plumage are longi- tudiral before the first real moult takes place , and for ever afterwards are transverse . In other words , when young the markings are in form of stripes , when old in form of ...
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... common English vegetables will not pro duce seed in the gardens . Still the inhabitants seem to get accustomed to their moist , chilly surroundings , and the colony is remarkably healthy . " | The Falkland Islands form essentially a ...
... common English vegetables will not pro duce seed in the gardens . Still the inhabitants seem to get accustomed to their moist , chilly surroundings , and the colony is remarkably healthy . " | The Falkland Islands form essentially a ...
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... common . This may be no more than mere profligacy , in a society where male kin is recog nized ; but the marriage custom of Thibet , which assigns to a woman several brothers as joint husbands , cannot be thus explained . This amazing ...
... common . This may be no more than mere profligacy , in a society where male kin is recog nized ; but the marriage custom of Thibet , which assigns to a woman several brothers as joint husbands , cannot be thus explained . This amazing ...
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... common religious rights peculiar to themselves , and at one time having a right to inherit property . All these things | point to consciousness of distant blood relationship . Still one feature of the ghotra seems absent . It is hardly ...
... common religious rights peculiar to themselves , and at one time having a right to inherit property . All these things | point to consciousness of distant blood relationship . Still one feature of the ghotra seems absent . It is hardly ...
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