The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... HIMALAYAN BREED - CURIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE- FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS - PORTO SANTO FERAL RABBITS OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS SKUTL SKULL OF HALF - LOP RABBITS - VARIATIONS IN THE vi CONTENTS .
... HIMALAYAN BREED - CURIOUS CASE OF INHERITANCE- FERAL RABBITS IN JAMAICA AND THE FALKLAND ISLANDS - PORTO SANTO FERAL RABBITS OSTEOLOGICAL CHARACTERS SKUTL SKULL OF HALF - LOP RABBITS - VARIATIONS IN THE vi CONTENTS .
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... island to another , tenanted by different species , that such plants will not often have been subjected to changes in their conditions analogous to those which almost inevitably cause cultivated plants to vary . No doubt man selects ...
... island to another , tenanted by different species , that such plants will not often have been subjected to changes in their conditions analogous to those which almost inevitably cause cultivated plants to vary . No doubt man selects ...
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... islands were separated by so many miles of ocean from the mainland , and differed much in their geological constitution and climate . Still more surprising was the fact that most of the inhabitants of each separate island in this small ...
... islands were separated by so many miles of ocean from the mainland , and differed much in their geological constitution and climate . Still more surprising was the fact that most of the inhabitants of each separate island in this small ...
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... island as Ireland . The reasons which have led various authors to infer that our dogs have descended from more than one wild species are as follows . Firstly , the great difference between the several breeds ; but this will appear of ...
... island as Ireland . The reasons which have led various authors to infer that our dogs have descended from more than one wild species are as follows . Firstly , the great difference between the several breeds ; but this will appear of ...
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... Islands were first visited by man , the large wolf - like dog ( Canis antarcticus ) fearlessly came to meet Byron's sailors , who , mistaking this ignorant . curiosity for ferocity , ran into the water to avoid them : even recently a ...
... Islands were first visited by man , the large wolf - like dog ( Canis antarcticus ) fearlessly came to meet Byron's sailors , who , mistaking this ignorant . curiosity for ferocity , ran into the water to avoid them : even recently a ...
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aboriginal animals appearance bankiva Barbs beak Bechstein birds blue Blyth body bones bud-variation buds Carriers cattle cervical vertebra character Cochins colour common crest crossed cultivated descended distinct species dogs domestic breeds domestic pigeon domestic rabbits domestic races dovecot duck ears elongated English Pouter fact fanciers Fantails feathers female feral flowers frontal bones fruit Gardener's Chron Gardener's Chronicle grafted Hist horses Hort hybrids inches India inherited instance Islands kinds latter legs length livia lop-eared rabbits lumbar vertebræ maize male mammæ modified natural nearly nectarine niata observed parent parent-form peach peculiar pigeons pigs plants plumage pollen Porto Santo Poultry Pouters produced propagated remarkable resemble reversion rock-pigeon Runts seed seedlings seen selection shape Short-faced Tumbler skeletons skin skull specimens sternum stripes sub-breeds Sub-race sub-varieties tail tail-feathers Tegetmeier trees tubers Turbits variable variation varieties vary vertebræ whilst wild rabbit wild rock-pigeon wings Zoolog
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Página 65 - Eng. translat., p. 235) the probability of the descent of all the existing races from a single, dun-coloured, more or less striped, primitive stock, to which our horses occasionally revert.
Página 94 - ... cattle; but during the great droughts, when so many animals perish, the niata breed is under a great disadvantage, and would be exterminated if not attended to; for the common cattle, like horses, are able just to keep alive, by browsing with their lips on twigs of trees and reeds ; this the niatas cannot so well do, as their lips do not join, and hence they are found to perish before the common cattle. This strikes me as a. good illustration of how little we are able to judge from the ordinary...
Página 26 - C. latrans), and from two or three other doubtful species (namely, the European, Indian, and North African wolves) ; from at least one or two South American canine species ; from several races or species of jackal ; and perhaps from one or more extinct species.
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