Zoology
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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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The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal ObservationsThe Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal ObservationsDuring these days of ceaseless conflict, anxiety and unrest among men, when at times it begins to look as if "the Caucasian" really is "played out," perhaps the English-reading world will turn with...
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Friends and HelpersFriends and HelpersThe object of this book is to teach children to treat all living creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of man's helpers in the animal world. In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for...
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Moths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost CabinMoths of the Limberlost: A Book About Limberlost CabinTo me the Limberlost is a word with which to conjure; a spot wherein to revel. The swamp lies in north-eastern Indiana, nearly one hundred miles south of the Michigan line and ten west of the...
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Let's Collect Rocks and ShellsLet's Collect Rocks and ShellsMillions of people throughout the world have found many hours of pleasure, adventure and education by collecting either rocks or shells. This booklet won't tell you everything there is to know about rocks and shells. That would require many large...
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The Life of the BeeThe Life of the Bee IT is not my intention to write a treatise on apiculture, or on practical bee-keeping. Excellent works of the kind abound in all civilised countries, and it were useless to attempt another. France has those of Dadant, Georges de...
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Wake-RobinWake-Robin This is mainly a book about the Birds, or more properly an invitation to the study of Ornithology, and the purpose of the author will be carried out in proportion as it awakens and stimulates the interest of the reader in this branch...
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The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of InsectsThe Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects EXPERIMENT 1. The mole is fixed fore and aft, with a lashing of raphia, to a light horizontal cross-bar resting on two forks. The Necrophori, after long tiring themselves in digging under the body,...
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Fabre, Poet of ScienceFabre, Poet of Science Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is...
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More Hunting WaspsMore Hunting Wasps The fourteen chapters contained in this volume complete the list of essays in the "Souvenirs entomologiques" devoted to Wasps. The remainder will be found in the two earlier volumes of this collected edition entitled "The Hunting Wasps" and the "Mason-wasps" respectively....
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Bramble-Bees and OthersBramble-Bees and Others In this volume I have collected all the essays on Wild Bees scattered through the "Souvenirs entomologiques," with the exception of those on the Chalicodomae, or Mason-bees proper, which form the contents of a separate volume entitled "The Mason-bees." The first...
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The Life of the Fly With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of Autobiography TRANSLATOR'S NOTE CHAPTER I. THE HARMAS CHAPTER II. THE ANTHRAX CHAPTER III. ANOTHER PROBER (PERFORATOR) CHAPTER IV. LARVAL DIMORPHISM CHAPTER V. HEREDITY CHAPTER VI. MY SCHOOLING CHAPTER VII. THE POND CHAPTER...
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The Burgess Bird Book for ChildrenThe Burgess Bird Book for Children This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children....
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Wild Animals I Have KnownWild Animals I Have Known THESE STORIES are true. Although I have left the strict line of historical truth in many places, the animals in this book were all real characters. They lived the lives I have depicted, and showed the stamp of heroism...
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The Mason-BeesThe Mason-Bees This volume contains all the essays on the Chalicodomae, or Mason-bees proper, which so greatly enhance the interest of the early volumes of the "Souvenirs entomologiques." I have also included an essay on the author's Cats and one on Red Antsthe only...
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The Burgess Animal Book for ChildrenThe Burgess Animal Book for Children The cordial reception given the Burgess Bird Book for Children, together with numerous letters to the author asking for information on the habits and characteristics of many of the mammals of America, led to the preparation of this...
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