Zoology

Roof and MeadowI laid down my book and listened. It was only the choking gurgle of a broken rain-pipe outside: then it was the ripple and swish of a meadow stream. To make out the voices of redwings and marsh-wrens in the rasping notes...

Birds of Guernsey (1879) - And the Neighbouring Islands: Alderney, Sark, Jethou, Herm; Being a Small Contribution to the Ornitholony of the Channel IslandsThough perhaps not possessing the interest to the ornithologist which Lundy Island (the only breeding-place of the Gannet in the South-West...

Lobo, Rag and Vixen - Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & VixenThese Stories, selected from those published in "Wild Animals I Have Known," are true histories of the animals described, and are intended to show how their lives are lived. Though...

Sketches of the Natural History of CeylonA considerable portion of the contents of the present volume formed the zoological section of a much more comprehensive work recently published, on the history and present condition of Ceylon.1 But its inclusion there was a matter of...

Mehiläisten elämä * * * * * * * * * * Aikomukseni ei ole kirjottaa teosta mehilisten hoidosta tahi kasvatuksesta. Kaikissa sivistysmaissa on erinomaisia julkaisuja tlt alalta, jotenka uuden kirjottaminen olisi turhaa. Ranskassa on Dadantin, Georges de Layensin ja Bonniern, Bertrandin, Hametn, Weberin,...

The 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...

Citizen 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...

Baldy 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...

Through 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...

Stickeen 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...

Monarch, 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...

Concerning 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...

The 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...

The 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...

Book 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...

Within 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...

Northern 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...

Concerning 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...

The 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...

Wanderings 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...