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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1TO THE FIRST EDITION. VOL. I. It is universally allowed that the study of nature is one of the most pleasing employments that can engage the mind of man. The entertainment it affords is as infinite as the variety...
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The FleaThe FleaTHE aim of this book is to give in plain language some account of a small, but noteworthy, group of insects. I have avoided, whenever I could, using the technical terms of zoology. To avoid doing so entirely is impossible in a book...
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Wasps, Social and SolitaryWasps, Social and SolitaryNOT long since I wrote to a friend, a nature lover, as follows: The most charming monograph in any department of our natural history that I have read in many a year is on our solitary wasps, by George W. Peckham...
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Bird-Lore, Volume I—1899Bird-Lore, Volume I—1899 The subscription price is One Dollar per annum. Subscriptions and advertisements may be sent to the Publishers, The Macmillan Company, Harrisburg, Pa., or 66 Fifth Avenue, New York; or to the Editor, as above. The April number of Bird-Lore will contain...
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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 4Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 4.AN admirer of birds recently said to us: "Much is said of the brilliant specimens which you have presented in your magazine, but I confess that they have not been the most attractive to me. Many...
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Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 5Birds Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 3, No. 5OH, Music! voice inspired of all our joys and sorrows, of all our hopes and disappointments, to thee we turn for life, for strength and peace. The choristers of Naturethe birdsare our teachers. How free, how...
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Birds of the wave and woodlandBirds of the wave and woodlandThe Birds of the MonthsSome Rare Birds and Some CommonJanuary and the FieldfareFebrurary and the RookMarch, April, May, with the Thrush, Swallow and NightingaleThe Terrors of MigrationJune and the Ring-doveA Wood-Pigeon ProblemThe DotterelEvening Voices: The NightjarsJuly and the SkylarkAugust,...
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British Sea BirdsBritish Sea BirdsAmongst the many natural objects that confront the visitor to the sea, there are none more readily detected than birds. The wide waters of the ocean and its varied coast-line of cliff or sand, shingle or mud-flat, are the haunts of many...
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Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2)Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2)This is the seventh in a series of bulletins of the United States National Museum on the life histories of North American birds. Previous numbers have been issued as follows: The same general plan...
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Les chats: Histoire Moeurs Observations AnecdotesLes chats: Histoire; Moeurs; Observations; Anecdotes.Il peut paratre singulier que de longues tudes soient consacres un simple individu, au chat, qui, quoique rsumant une partie des facults des flins, ne saurait cependant donner une ide complte des tres plus considrables de la mme race;...
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Animal Life of the British IslesAnimal Life of the British Isles - A Pocket Guide to the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and WoodlandIt is unnecessary to say much by way of Preface to the present volume, the series of popular handbooks of which it forms part being...
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Egyptian BirdsEgyptian Birds - For the most part seen in the Nile Valley The Griffon Vulture, The Egyptian Vulture, The Kestrel, The Parasitic Kite or Egyptian Kite, White Owl, Screech Owl, The Little Owl, Egyptian Eagle Owl, The Hoopoe, The Kingfisher, Black and White Kingfisher,...
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The Biotic Associations of CockroachesThe Biotic Associations of CockroachesRecently we brought together much of the literature linking cockroaches with the transmission of certain organisms that cause disease in man and other vertebrates. In that paper (1957a) we concluded that cockroaches, being potential vectors of pathogenic agents, should not...
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The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2)The Birds of Washington (Volume 1 of 2) - A complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the stateLove of the birds is a natural passion and one which requires neither analysis nor defense. The birds live, we...
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A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)A Guide to the Study of Fishes, Volume 1 (of 2)This work treats of the fish from all the varied points of view of the different branches of the study of Ichthyology. In general all traits of the fish are discussed, those which the...
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Jellyfish, Starfish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous SystemsJelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins: Being a Research on Primitive Nervous SystemsAmong the most beautiful, as well as the most common, of the marine animals which are to be met with upon our coasts are the jelly-fish and the star-fish. Scarcely any one is so...
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The Snakes of EuropeThe Snakes of EuropeThere is no work in the English language dealing with the Reptiles of Europe. I have therefore endeavoured to supply this desideratum, so far as the Snakes are concerned, by drawing up in a concise form an account of what is...
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Bird Guide: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey East of the RockiesBird Guide: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey East of the RockiesThe study of the birds included in this book is much more difficult than that of the small land birds. Many of the birds are large; some are very rare; all...
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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 - ZoologyIn the course of a recent investigation into the nature of the singular extinct reptile, Stagonolepis, I was led to inquire somewhat minutely into the character of the exoskeleton, or dermal armour,...
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Glimpses of Indian BirdsGlimpses of Indian BirdsIn the brief sketches that follow I find occasion repeatedly to attack the prevalent theories of protective colouration, because it is impossible for the naturalist who uses his eyes to accept these theories. Most of these hypotheses were advanced by field...
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