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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... feeding its young - Evil odour of its burrow - The WOOD . PECKER - Its uses and misunderstood character - Method of burrowing - The Fungus and the Woodpecker - American Woodpeckers - The WRYNECK — Its popular names and locality of its ...
... feeding its young - Evil odour of its burrow - The WOOD . PECKER - Its uses and misunderstood character - Method of burrowing - The Fungus and the Woodpecker - American Woodpeckers - The WRYNECK — Its popular names and locality of its ...
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... Feeding of the young - The VERVAIN HUMMING BIRD - HOW the nest assumes its shape - The RED - BACKED SHRIKE - Use of the Shrike- Falconry - Their singular mode of feeding - Impaled prey - Conspicuous cha- racter of the nest - Popular ...
... Feeding of the young - The VERVAIN HUMMING BIRD - HOW the nest assumes its shape - The RED - BACKED SHRIKE - Use of the Shrike- Falconry - Their singular mode of feeding - Impaled prey - Conspicuous cha- racter of the nest - Popular ...
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... feeding - grounds ; establishes a system of com- munication as elaborate as that of a modern railway , or to be more correct , as that of the subterranean network of metropolitan sewers ; and is an animal of varied accomplishments . It ...
... feeding - grounds ; establishes a system of com- munication as elaborate as that of a modern railway , or to be more correct , as that of the subterranean network of metropolitan sewers ; and is an animal of varied accomplishments . It ...
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... feeding grounds . In two instances where the Gophers had entered a garden , their tunnels were traced throughout the greater part of their extent , and were found to be driven at an average depth of a foot or eighteen inches below the ...
... feeding grounds . In two instances where the Gophers had entered a garden , their tunnels were traced throughout the greater part of their extent , and were found to be driven at an average depth of a foot or eighteen inches below the ...
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... feeding upon insects like the rest of the edentate animals . PICHICIAGO The chief point of interest which strikes an observer when looking at a Pichiciago , is the cuirass with which its body is defended . It is made and arranged in a ...
... feeding upon insects like the rest of the edentate animals . PICHICIAGO The chief point of interest which strikes an observer when looking at a Pichiciago , is the cuirass with which its body is defended . It is made and arranged in a ...
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