The Life- History of British Serpents and Their Local Distribution in the British IslesW. Blackwood and sons, 1901 - 383 páginas |
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... observations is acknow- ledged at the end of each report , and I have given the addresses of the various writers in the hope that they may thus be encouraged to communicate with each other , having found from experience that the great ...
... observations is acknow- ledged at the end of each report , and I have given the addresses of the various writers in the hope that they may thus be encouraged to communicate with each other , having found from experience that the great ...
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... observations . Of larger works on local fauna I am especially indebted to Rev. H. A. Macpherson , author of Fauna of Lakeland , ' and his publisher , Mr David Douglas , for placing at my disposal the illus- tration of the curious ...
... observations . Of larger works on local fauna I am especially indebted to Rev. H. A. Macpherson , author of Fauna of Lakeland , ' and his publisher , Mr David Douglas , for placing at my disposal the illus- tration of the curious ...
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... OBSERVATION - CLASSIFICATION AND TERMINOLOGY USED IN BOOK . IN very few countries of the world are the members of the class REPTILIA so sparsely represented as in the British Isles , and in all probability there are few persons who ...
... OBSERVATION - CLASSIFICATION AND TERMINOLOGY USED IN BOOK . IN very few countries of the world are the members of the class REPTILIA so sparsely represented as in the British Isles , and in all probability there are few persons who ...
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... observation of adders in their natural haunts is beset with difficulties greater than any which apply to the study of many other branches of our fauna . Adders are not to be found in every field , nor just when one has the time to give ...
... observation of adders in their natural haunts is beset with difficulties greater than any which apply to the study of many other branches of our fauna . Adders are not to be found in every field , nor just when one has the time to give ...
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... observation or for the winter's sleep . The long rank grass , too , of the marshy land offers great temptations in the shape of food - supply : where the lizards and amphibians congregate , there also will the ring snake be found . On ...
... observation or for the winter's sleep . The long rank grass , too , of the marshy land offers great temptations in the shape of food - supply : where the lizards and amphibians congregate , there also will the ring snake be found . On ...
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18 inches 24 inches adder averages adders and ring animals Author average length bite bitten British serpents captured Cefncaeau Cheap Edition common snake Coronella austriaca Crown 8vo Demy 8vo dissection distribution district Edinburgh eggs embryo Fcap feet female adder Forest frequently frog Garway Hill grass snake gullet head heaths Herefordshire hibernation inches in length inches long killed large number largest letter lizard LL.D locality MALE ADDER Maps markings measured Monmouthshire Monnow Valley Museum Natural History naturalist neighbourhood Newcastle Emlyn North number of young numerous Illustrations observed occur OLIPHANT once Ophidia Pontrilas Portraits Post 8vo Professor PROVINCE rare reptile ring snake Scotland Second Edition side slough slow-worm small red viper smooth snake South species specimen spot swallow their young tail taken Third Edition tion Tropidonotus natrix University of Edinburgh venomous Vipera berus vols Wales woods young adders
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