Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... BIRDS . 194 WEAVER BIRDS and their general habits - RED - BILLED WEAVER BIRD - Its bovine friends - Its use to the buffalo - Other parasitic birds - The SPOTTED- BACKED WEAVER BIRD - Its nest , and variable method of construction - The ...
... BIRDS . 194 WEAVER BIRDS and their general habits - RED - BILLED WEAVER BIRD - Its bovine friends - Its use to the buffalo - Other parasitic birds - The SPOTTED- BACKED WEAVER BIRD - Its nest , and variable method of construction - The ...
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... BIRD - Singular method of suspending the nest - The WHITE - SHAFTED FANTAIL - Strange form of the nest - The appendage or tail of the nest . 213 CHAPTER XIII . PENSILE BIRDS ( CONTINUED ) . American Pensile Birds - Humming Birds , and ...
... BIRD - Singular method of suspending the nest - The WHITE - SHAFTED FANTAIL - Strange form of the nest - The appendage or tail of the nest . 213 CHAPTER XIII . PENSILE BIRDS ( CONTINUED ) . American Pensile Birds - Humming Birds , and ...
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... BIRDS . THE OVEN BIRD and its place in ornithology - Its general habits - Nest of the Oven Bird - Curious materials and historical parallel - The specimens in the British Museum- The internal architecture of the nest - Division into ...
... BIRDS . THE OVEN BIRD and its place in ornithology - Its general habits - Nest of the Oven Bird - Curious materials and historical parallel - The specimens in the British Museum- The internal architecture of the nest - Division into ...
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... bird - Its usefulness and quarrelsome nature -The LYRE BIRD - Origin of its name - Its domed nest - The ALBERT'S LYRE BIRD and its habits - The Bower BIRD - Why so called - Civilization and social amusement - The remarkable bower - Its ...
... bird - Its usefulness and quarrelsome nature -The LYRE BIRD - Origin of its name - Its domed nest - The ALBERT'S LYRE BIRD and its habits - The Bower BIRD - Why so called - Civilization and social amusement - The remarkable bower - Its ...
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... bird - Song of the Reed - Warbler - Its deep and beautifully balanced nest - Colour of the eggs - The CAPOCIER - Why so called - Familiarity of the bird - Le Vaillant's experiments - How the nest is made - Division of labour - Lovers ...
... bird - Song of the Reed - Warbler - Its deep and beautifully balanced nest - Colour of the eggs - The CAPOCIER - Why so called - Familiarity of the bird - Le Vaillant's experiments - How the nest is made - Division of labour - Lovers ...
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Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals ... John George Wood Visualização integral - 1866 |
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