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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... nearly spherical chamber , the roof of which is nearly on a level with the earth around the hill , and therefore situated at a considerable depth from the apex of the heap . Around this keep are driven two circular passages , or ...
... nearly spherical chamber , the roof of which is nearly on a level with the earth around the hill , and therefore situated at a considerable depth from the apex of the heap . Around this keep are driven two circular passages , or ...
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... nearly blind , and therefore incapable of following prey by sight , it would be active beyond conception , springing this way and that way as it goes along , so as to cover a large amount of space , leaping with lightning quickness upon ...
... nearly blind , and therefore incapable of following prey by sight , it would be active beyond conception , springing this way and that way as it goes along , so as to cover a large amount of space , leaping with lightning quickness upon ...
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... nearly as powerful as that produced by the musk deer , and the perfume obtained at a much cheaper rate . The well - known Musk Rat of India belongs also to this odoriferous family . THE FOX is a well - known burrower , its earth ' being ...
... nearly as powerful as that produced by the musk deer , and the perfume obtained at a much cheaper rate . The well - known Musk Rat of India belongs also to this odoriferous family . THE FOX is a well - known burrower , its earth ' being ...
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... nearly rivalling the rats and mice in fecundity , and converting the land into a very honey- comb of burrows . Indeed , were not the flesh of the Rabbit marketable , and its fur valuable - were not the stoat , the weasel , the hawk ...
... nearly rivalling the rats and mice in fecundity , and converting the land into a very honey- comb of burrows . Indeed , were not the flesh of the Rabbit marketable , and its fur valuable - were not the stoat , the weasel , the hawk ...
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... nearly a peck of acorns , some Indian corn , and a quart of the beaked nuts already mentioned . The popular names of Chipping Squirrel and Chipmuck are given to this little animal on account of its cry , which sounds like the chirping ...
... nearly a peck of acorns , some Indian corn , and a quart of the beaked nuts already mentioned . The popular names of Chipping Squirrel and Chipmuck are given to this little animal on account of its cry , which sounds like the chirping ...
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