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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 5 [December 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyOnly a very limited portion of the United States is beautified by the presence of the bright colored Hooded Oriole. The North has the richly plumaged Baltimore oriole for a short...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 2 [July 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 2 [July 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThere are two varieties of this species, the Palm or Red-poll Warbler, and the yellow palm or yellow red-poll warbler. The latter is a native of the Atlantic States and breeds...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 4 [September 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyIn years gone by, when large sections of the United States were covered with deeply wooded virgin forests frequented only by denizens of the wildwood, the Pileated Woodpecker was an abundant...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe sun-birds bear a similar relation to the oriental tropics that the humming birds do to the warmer regions of the Western hemisphere. Both have a remarkably brilliant plumage which is...
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Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 1 [June 1902]Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 1 [June 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyMarked among its kind by no ordinary beauty of form and brilliancy of color, the Kite courses through the air with a grace and buoyancy it would be vain to rival....
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Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2)Studies in the Theory of Descent (Volumes 1 and 2)With the appearance of Charles Darwins work On the Origin of Species, in the year 1858, there commenced a new era in biology. Weary of the philosophical speculations which, at the beginning of this century,...
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Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume IIStudies in the Theory of Descent, Volume IIIt would be meaningless to assert that the two stages above mentioned were completely independent of one another. It is obvious that the amount of organic and living matter contained in the caterpillar determines the size of...
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Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume IStudies in the Theory of Descent, Volume IWith the appearance of Charles Darwins work On the Origin of Species, in the year 1858, there commenced a new era in biology. Weary of the philosophical speculations which, at the beginning of this century, had at...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1899Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyHOW vividly a first meeting with some interesting species rests in the memory of the bird-lover! It was at the evening twilight of October 14, 1886, that a strange whistle...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1899Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHE well-known spice ginger is the underground stem (rhizome) of an herbaceous reed-like plant known as Zingiber officinale. The rhizome is perennial, but the leaf and flower-bearing stems are annual....
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1899Birds and All Nature, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1899 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyA REMARKABLE example of the human-like intelligence of a chimpanzee, rivaling that of the celebrated "Mr. Crowley," of New York, so long the chief object of admiration in the museum...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1898Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyALL animals with lungs have some sort of contrivance in the windpipe that is able to set the air in vibration as it is expelled or inhaled. Some have not...
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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1898Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1898YES, Lowell, in a few words, describes the month of June, or, at least, he indicates something of it. But, still, what are perfect days? We look for them in April, when the birds,...
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Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 5 [May 1902]Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 5 [May 1902] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe Ardeidae, or the family of herons, egrets and bitterns, includes about seventy-five species, which are world wide in their distribution, though much more common in temperate regions. So widely scattered...
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Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 5 [May 1901]Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 5 [May 1901] - Illustrated by Color PhotographyThe name oriole is from the French word oriol, which is a corruption of the Latin word aureolus, meaning golden. The name was originally applied to a vire, but is now...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 5, November 1898Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 5, November 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyALL nature is attuned to music. Man may seek the fields, the forests, the mountains, and the meadows, to escape from distracting noises of the city, but nowhere, not even...
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1898Birds and All Nature, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHE happiness that is added to human lives by love for the lower creatures is beyond telling. Ernest von Vogelweide, the great German lyric poet of the middle ages, so...
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Everyday Objects Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural HistoryEveryday Objects; Or, Picturesque Aspects of Natural History. The very favourable reception accorded both by Press and Public to the "Circle of the Year," has induced me to prepare a second volume, similar in design, but dealing with different branches of the same subject....
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Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1898Birds and All Nature, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1898 - Illustrated by Color PhotographyTHE air is an elastic fluid surrounding the earth. The motions of things whether alive or not, set it in a state of vibration that rarely ceases. At all times...
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Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild FlowersCountry Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers - Being Rural Wanderings in Cheshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, and YorkshireTHE following pages consist, in part, of a reprint of the little volume published in 1858 under the title of Manchester Walks and WildFlowers;in part, of brief...
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