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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... Illustration of the theory of heat - The BROWN - TAILED MOTH and its nest - Social habitations of the PEACH and SMALL TORTOISESHELL Butterflies . 421 CHAPTER XXIV . SOCIAL INSECTS ( CONTINUED ) . A curious Ant from India ( Myrmica ...
... Illustration of the theory of heat - The BROWN - TAILED MOTH and its nest - Social habitations of the PEACH and SMALL TORTOISESHELL Butterflies . 421 CHAPTER XXIV . SOCIAL INSECTS ( CONTINUED ) . A curious Ant from India ( Myrmica ...
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... ILLUSTRATIONS . FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE OSPREY AND GRAKLES ( See page 475 ) Frontispiece . PRAIRIE DOG to face page 23 GIANT ARMADILLO 42 ROBBER CRAB TRAP - DOOR SPIDER SCARABEUS , & c . HARVEST MOUSE XYLOCOPA , & c . AFRICAN ...
... ILLUSTRATIONS . FULL PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS . PAGE OSPREY AND GRAKLES ( See page 475 ) Frontispiece . PRAIRIE DOG to face page 23 GIANT ARMADILLO 42 ROBBER CRAB TRAP - DOOR SPIDER SCARABEUS , & c . HARVEST MOUSE XYLOCOPA , & c . AFRICAN ...
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... illustration was drawn from them . According to Wilson and Audubon , some of the Woodpeckers of North America are able to excavate tunnels in the sound and still undecayed wood . They do not however select the hard wood in preference to ...
... illustration was drawn from them . According to Wilson and Audubon , some of the Woodpeckers of North America are able to excavate tunnels in the sound and still undecayed wood . They do not however select the hard wood in preference to ...
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... , but easily to be comprehended by reference to the illustration . The reader can , however , form some notion of its general form , by removing a common hermit THE ROBBER CRAB . The crab from its residence , 90 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
... , but easily to be comprehended by reference to the illustration . The reader can , however , form some notion of its general form , by removing a common hermit THE ROBBER CRAB . The crab from its residence , 90 HOMES WITHOUT HANDS .
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... illustration on page 128 may be seen a figure of a remarkable burrowing bee , called Scolia flavifrons , a native of Europe , but not as yet proved to be British . In common with other fossorial bees , this insect is carnivorous in its ...
... illustration on page 128 may be seen a figure of a remarkable burrowing bee , called Scolia flavifrons , a native of Europe , but not as yet proved to be British . In common with other fossorial bees , this insect is carnivorous in its ...
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