The Natural History of SelborneW. Scott, 1887 - 366 стор. |
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... animals ! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high , various , and unusual food . I had remarked , for years , that the root of the cuckoo- pint ( arum ) was frequently scratched out of the ...
... animals ! The pied and mottled colours of domesticated animals are supposed to be owing to high , various , and unusual food . I had remarked , for years , that the root of the cuckoo- pint ( arum ) was frequently scratched out of the ...
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... animals , some- thing analogous to that of the cryptogamia in the sexual system of plants : and the case is the same with regard to some of the fishes ; as the eel , etc. : The method in which toads procreate and bring forth seems to be ...
... animals , some- thing analogous to that of the cryptogamia in the sexual system of plants : and the case is the same with regard to some of the fishes ; as the eel , etc. : The method in which toads procreate and bring forth seems to be ...
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... animals of his own " Fauna . " Faunists , as you observe , are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions , and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study , but the investigation of the ...
... animals of his own " Fauna . " Faunists , as you observe , are too apt to acquiesce in bare descriptions , and a few synonyms : the reason is plain ; because all that may be done at home in a man's study , but the investigation of the ...
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