Siberia in Asia: a visit to the valley of the Yenesay1882 |
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... Egg of the Red - breasted Goose - Brek ' - off sky Island- Eggs of the Mountain Accentor - Various eggs - Wearied out - Ugliness of the natives - Land on the horizon 168 CHAPTER XVII . Gol - cheek ' - a - Blowing eggs - Drift - wood on ...
... Egg of the Red - breasted Goose - Brek ' - off sky Island- Eggs of the Mountain Accentor - Various eggs - Wearied out - Ugliness of the natives - Land on the horizon 168 CHAPTER XVII . Gol - cheek ' - a - Blowing eggs - Drift - wood on ...
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... eggs , and ethnological curiosities from the tundras of Siberia - in - Europe . In 1876 Drs . Finsch and Brehm made an expedition to the Obb , extending still further east our recent zoological and ethno- logical knowledge of these ...
... eggs , and ethnological curiosities from the tundras of Siberia - in - Europe . In 1876 Drs . Finsch and Brehm made an expedition to the Obb , extending still further east our recent zoological and ethno- logical knowledge of these ...
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... eggs . The villages are dwindling away . Toor - o - kansk ' is only the wreck of what it once was ; and when one looks at the tumble - down church , and the few miserable straggling houses that nowhere else would be called a town , one ...
... eggs . The villages are dwindling away . Toor - o - kansk ' is only the wreck of what it once was ; and when one looks at the tumble - down church , and the few miserable straggling houses that nowhere else would be called a town , one ...
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... egg . On the following day , when I made my usual round in the forest , I found a nor - west wind blowing , and although the sun frequently shone , it was very cold . Travelling was easy enough . There was a frozen crust on the snow ...
... egg . On the following day , when I made my usual round in the forest , I found a nor - west wind blowing , and although the sun frequently shone , it was very cold . Travelling was easy enough . There was a frozen crust on the snow ...
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... eggs . I had a good view of the parent birds , and ascertained that they were hybrids between the Carrion Crow and the Hoodie . The wind was sou - west , but there was no sunshine , and it froze hard . Further south , how- ever , the ...
... eggs . I had a good view of the parent birds , and ascertained that they were hybrids between the Carrion Crow and the Hoodie . The wind was sou - west , but there was no sunshine , and it froze hard . Further south , how- ever , the ...
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