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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... tree on which the nest is built , and its uses - Dimensions of the nest and disastrous consequences - A Hottentot and a lion - Supposed object of tho Social nest - Average number of inhabitants - Analogy with Dyak houses- Enemies of the ...
... tree on which the nest is built , and its uses - Dimensions of the nest and disastrous consequences - A Hottentot and a lion - Supposed object of tho Social nest - Average number of inhabitants - Analogy with Dyak houses- Enemies of the ...
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... tree , and its aptitude for nourishing Galls - COMPOUND GALLS , or one Gall within another - The SENSITIVE GALL of ... trees and plants - The Cynips parasites upon an insect - Galls produced by other insects - Mr . Rennie's account of ...
... tree , and its aptitude for nourishing Galls - COMPOUND GALLS , or one Gall within another - The SENSITIVE GALL of ... trees and plants - The Cynips parasites upon an insect - Galls produced by other insects - Mr . Rennie's account of ...
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... trees of many years ' growth have been killed by this destructive animal . In such cases , the extremity of the burrow is always to be found among the roots of some tree , which act at the same time as a defence and a larder ; for D the ...
... trees of many years ' growth have been killed by this destructive animal . In such cases , the extremity of the burrow is always to be found among the roots of some tree , which act at the same time as a defence and a larder ; for D the ...
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... trees surrounded by a wall , and who will not permit a gun to be fired within those precincts , will not have to wait very long before his eyes are gladdened by the bright colours of the Woodpecker's plumage as it darts from tree to tree ...
... trees surrounded by a wall , and who will not permit a gun to be fired within those precincts , will not have to wait very long before his eyes are gladdened by the bright colours of the Woodpecker's plumage as it darts from tree to tree ...
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... tree , and in some mysterious manner will sap the life - power of the spot on which it grows . When the fungus falls in the autumn , it leaves scarcely a trace of its presence , the tree being apparently as healthy as before the advent ...
... tree , and in some mysterious manner will sap the life - power of the spot on which it grows . When the fungus falls in the autumn , it leaves scarcely a trace of its presence , the tree being apparently as healthy as before the advent ...
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