Magazine of Natural History: And Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, Volume 2John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1829 - Natural history |
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... collect ivory , if they find a tusk , they carry it on their shoulders till they sink with fatigue . They are said to build huts with leaves and boughs of trees , but not to have sufficient sagacity to live in them , as they get on the ...
... collect ivory , if they find a tusk , they carry it on their shoulders till they sink with fatigue . They are said to build huts with leaves and boughs of trees , but not to have sufficient sagacity to live in them , as they get on the ...
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... collected and illustrated zoological subjects in the East , and the other from Edward Bennet , Esq . , of Rougham Hall , in Suffolk , who collected insects with singular assiduity in the West , at Choco , in Colombia , I thought an ...
... collected and illustrated zoological subjects in the East , and the other from Edward Bennet , Esq . , of Rougham Hall , in Suffolk , who collected insects with singular assiduity in the West , at Choco , in Colombia , I thought an ...
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... collected with greater eagerness than ever , it is with the view of unfolding a page in the volume of creation ; of enlarging our knowledge of the structure and functions of animated beings ; of satisfying a blameless curiosity concern ...
... collected with greater eagerness than ever , it is with the view of unfolding a page in the volume of creation ; of enlarging our knowledge of the structure and functions of animated beings ; of satisfying a blameless curiosity concern ...
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... species . As several species , there is reason to believe , are distributed throughout a series of beds ( perhaps even of what are collect- Tot . sp . ively styled formations ) , and 26 Geological Arrangement of British Fossil Shells .
... species . As several species , there is reason to believe , are distributed throughout a series of beds ( perhaps even of what are collect- Tot . sp . ively styled formations ) , and 26 Geological Arrangement of British Fossil Shells .
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... collection , " including the nightingale , redstart , blackcap , whitethroat , garden warbler , and all the interesting birds of passage belong- ing to the genus Sylvia , which contains the choice singing birds that visit this country ...
... collection , " including the nightingale , redstart , blackcap , whitethroat , garden warbler , and all the interesting birds of passage belong- ing to the genus Sylvia , which contains the choice singing birds that visit this country ...
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