The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... islands must be small indeed . Yet its utility to the game - preserver , by destroying every one of his most precious wards that shews any sign of infirmity , can hardly be questioned by reason , and no one has more earnestly urged its ...
... islands must be small indeed . Yet its utility to the game - preserver , by destroying every one of his most precious wards that shews any sign of infirmity , can hardly be questioned by reason , and no one has more earnestly urged its ...
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... Islands . Very close to this comes the Greenland Falcon ( F. candicans ) , a native of North Greenland , and perhaps of other countries within the Arctic circle . Like the last , the Greenland Falcon from time to time occurs in the ...
... Islands . Very close to this comes the Greenland Falcon ( F. candicans ) , a native of North Greenland , and perhaps of other countries within the Arctic circle . Like the last , the Greenland Falcon from time to time occurs in the ...
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... islands , and is most wantonly and needlessly destroyed by gamekeepers . A second European species of the group is the beautiful F. eleonora , which hardly comes further north than the countries bordering the Mediterranean , and ...
... islands , and is most wantonly and needlessly destroyed by gamekeepers . A second European species of the group is the beautiful F. eleonora , which hardly comes further north than the countries bordering the Mediterranean , and ...
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... ISLANDS ( French , Malouines ; Spanish , Malvinas ) , a group of islands in the South Atlantic , belong- ing to Britain , and lying about 250 miles E. of the nearest point in the mainland of South America , between the parallels of 51 ...
... ISLANDS ( French , Malouines ; Spanish , Malvinas ) , a group of islands in the South Atlantic , belong- ing to Britain , and lying about 250 miles E. of the nearest point in the mainland of South America , between the parallels of 51 ...
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... Islands , a name which they still bear on some of the Dutch maps . Captain Strong sailed through between the two principal islands in 1690 , and called the passage Falkland Sound , and from this the group afterwards took its English ...
... Islands , a name which they still bear on some of the Dutch maps . Captain Strong sailed through between the two principal islands in 1690 , and called the passage Falkland Sound , and from this the group afterwards took its English ...
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