The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... NIATA CATTLE - ORIGIN OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE . SHEEP . - REMARKABLE RACES OF - VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE MALE SEX - ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS - GESTATION OF -CHANGES IN THE WOOL - SEMI - MONSTROUS BREEDS . GOATS ...
... NIATA CATTLE - ORIGIN OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE . SHEEP . - REMARKABLE RACES OF - VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE MALE SEX - ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS - GESTATION OF -CHANGES IN THE WOOL - SEMI - MONSTROUS BREEDS . GOATS ...
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... NIATA CATTLE ORIGIN OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE . SHEEP . - REMARKABLE RACES OF VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE MALE SEX -ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS GESTATION OF - CHANGES IN THE WOOL SEMI - MONSTROUS BREEDS . GOATS . - REMARKABLE ...
... NIATA CATTLE ORIGIN OF THE VARIOUS RACES OF CATTLE . SHEEP . - REMARKABLE RACES OF VARIATIONS ATTACHED TO THE MALE SEX -ADAPTATIONS TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS GESTATION OF - CHANGES IN THE WOOL SEMI - MONSTROUS BREEDS . GOATS . - REMARKABLE ...
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... niata cattle , in sheep , in Polish fowls , short - faced tumbler pigeons , and in one variety of the carp - for the bones of the face to become greatly shortened . In the case of the dog , as H. Müller has shown , this seems caused by ...
... niata cattle , in sheep , in Polish fowls , short - faced tumbler pigeons , and in one variety of the carp - for the bones of the face to become greatly shortened . In the case of the dog , as H. Müller has shown , this seems caused by ...
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... niata cattle occasionally appears in European cattle ; but he is mistaken , as we shall hereafter see , in supposing that these cattle do not form a distinct race . Prof. Wyman , of Cambridge , United States , informs me that the common ...
... niata cattle occasionally appears in European cattle ; but he is mistaken , as we shall hereafter see , in supposing that these cattle do not form a distinct race . Prof. Wyman , of Cambridge , United States , informs me that the common ...
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... niata bull and cow invariably produce niata calves . The breed has already lasted at least a century . A niata bull crossed with a common cow , and the reverse cross , yield offspring having an intermediate character , but with the ...
... niata bull and cow invariably produce niata calves . The breed has already lasted at least a century . A niata bull crossed with a common cow , and the reverse cross , yield offspring having an intermediate character , but with the ...
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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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