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The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1I have long regretted my inability to issue a revised edition of 'Nests and Eggs.' For many years after the first Rough Draft appeared, I went on laboriously accumulating materials for a re-issue, but subsequently circumstances...
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Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for BeginnersCitizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners CHARACTERS: DR. ROY HUNTER, a naturalist. OLIVE, the Doctor's daughter. NAT and DODO, the Doctor's nephew and niece. RAP, a country boy. MAMMY BUN, an old colored nurse. OLAF, a fisherman. CHAPTER XVI A...
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Baldy of NomeBaldy of NomeBaldy knew that something was wrong. His most diverting efforts had failed to gain the usual reward of a caress, or at least a word of understanding; and so, dog-like to express his sympathy, he came close beside his friend and licked...
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Through the Brazilian WildernessThrough the Brazilian Wilderness The official and proper title of the expedition is that given it by the Brazilian Government: Expedicao Scientifica Roosevelt- Rondon. When I started from the United States, it was to make an expedition, primarily concerned with mammalogy and ornithology, for...
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StickeenStickeen My dear dumb friend, low lying there, A willing vassal at my feet; Glad partner of my home and fare, My shadow in the street; I look into your great brown eyes, Where love and loyal homage shine, And wonder where the difference...
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Monarch, the Big Bear of TallacMonarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Kind memory calls the picture up before me now, clear, living clear: I see them as they sat, the one small and slight, the other tall and brawny, leader and led, rough men of the hills. They told...
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Concerning Animals and Other MattersConcerning Animals and Other Matters Edward Hamilton Aitken, the author of the following sketches, was well known to the present generation of Anglo-Indians, by his pen-name of Eha, as an accurate and amusing writer on natural history subjects. Those who were privileged to know...
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The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational BehaviorThe Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior1. Julius, Pongo pygmaeus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Lock and key test 2. Skirrl, Pithecus irus: Box stacking experiment Box and pole experiment Draw-in experiment Hammer and nail...
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The History of InsectsThe History of InsectsInsects are so called from a separation in the middle of their bodies, seemingly cut into two parts, and joined together by a small ligature, as we see in wasps and common flies. However small and contemptible this class of beings...
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Book about AnimalsBook about Animals Is the biggest of all land animals. He is more than five times as big as an ox. But he is a harmless creature, for all that. When he is wild, and lives in the woods, he will run away, if...
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Within the DeepWithin the Deep - Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VIII. Of all the fish in the wide ocean world, the Herring deserves to be called the king. He gives work to thousands of people, and food to millions. Many towns exist because...
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Northern Trails, Book INorthern Trails, Book I.In the original preface to "Northern Trails" the author stated that, with the solitary exception of the salmon's life in the sea after he vanishes from human sight, every incident recorded here is founded squarely upon personal and accurate observation of...
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Concerning Cats: My Own and Some OthersConcerning Cats: My Own and Some Others She was such a Pretty Lady, and gentle withal; so quiet and eminently ladylike in her behavior, and yet dignified and haughtily reserved as a duchess. Still it is better, under certain circumstances, to be a cat...
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The Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorThe Dancing Mouse: A Study in Animal BehaviorThis book is the direct result of what, at the time of its occurrence, seemed to be an unimportant incident in the course of my scientific work the presentation of a pair of dancing mice to the...
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Wanderings in South AmericaWanderings in South America I offer this book of "Wanderings" with a hesitating hand. It has little merit, and must make its way through the world as well as it can. It will receive many a jostle as it goes along, and perhaps is...
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The Naturalist in La PlataThe Naturalist in La PlataTHE plan I have followed in this work has been to sift and arrange the facts I have gathered concerning the habits of the animals best known to me, preserving those only, which, in my judgment, appeared worth recording. In...
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John James AudubonJohn James Audubon The pioneer in American ornithology was Alexander Wilson, a Scotch weaver and poet, who emigrated to this country in 1794, and began the publication of his great work upon our birds in 1808. He figured and described three hundred and twenty...
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Birds in Town and VillageBirds in Town & Village AUTHOR OF "THE PURPLE LAND," "IDLE DAYS IN PATAGONIA," "FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO," ETC. THIS book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village first published in 1893. That was my first book about bird...
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Catalogue of British Columbia BirdsCatalogue of British Columbia BirdsThe present list is intended to include all birds which have been so far proven to occur in British Columbia. I am fully aware of its incompleteness, and very much regret much of its lack of more definite information regarding...
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Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early LifeFar Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early LifePreambleThe house where I was bornThe singular ombu treeA tree without a nameThe plainThe ghost of a murdered slaveOur playmate, the old sheep-dogA first riding-lessonThe cattle: an evening sceneMy motherCaptain ScottThe hermit and his...
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