Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, Volume 2Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1867 |
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... females being full of spawn . After some days a small hole was observed in the sand near a large stone . To this hole one of the males was paying the most assiduous and extraordi- nary attentions : he would poise himself at an angle of ...
... females being full of spawn . After some days a small hole was observed in the sand near a large stone . To this hole one of the males was paying the most assiduous and extraordi- nary attentions : he would poise himself at an angle of ...
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... female taking no heed of her off- spring . Thus much for the common three - spined stickle- back's nest . The nest of the ten - spined stickleback is said to be barrel - shaped and placed , not on the bottom , but among the stems and ...
... female taking no heed of her off- spring . Thus much for the common three - spined stickle- back's nest . The nest of the ten - spined stickleback is said to be barrel - shaped and placed , not on the bottom , but among the stems and ...
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... female aleyroids are winged , whereas the female coccus always remains in a scale - like , quiescent state . The aleyrodes rank amongst the Homoptera or tribe which comprises the green - fly or Apis , the musical Cicada , the strange ...
... female aleyroids are winged , whereas the female coccus always remains in a scale - like , quiescent state . The aleyrodes rank amongst the Homoptera or tribe which comprises the green - fly or Apis , the musical Cicada , the strange ...
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... female Belted King- fishers are crested . The feathers composing this head - dress can be erected and spread over the eyes like a sunshade ; and this , I believe , is its real use . I am led to think so from watching the birds during ...
... female Belted King- fishers are crested . The feathers composing this head - dress can be erected and spread over the eyes like a sunshade ; and this , I believe , is its real use . I am led to think so from watching the birds during ...
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... female screw , thereby en- abling it it to be screwed into the body of the instru- ment , and an objec- tive into the lower opening . Midway between their two orifices is situated a small plate of parallel glass , which receives light ...
... female screw , thereby en- abling it it to be screwed into the body of the instru- ment , and an objec- tive into the lower opening . Midway between their two orifices is situated a small plate of parallel glass , which receives light ...
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