A History of the earth and animated nature v.1, Volume 1A. Fullarton, 1852 |
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... keep it buoyant , while the fore - parts are cleaving the air by their sharpness . From this conformation , they have often been compared to a ship making its way through water ; the trunk of the body answers to the hold , the head to ...
... keep it buoyant , while the fore - parts are cleaving the air by their sharpness . From this conformation , they have often been compared to a ship making its way through water ; the trunk of the body answers to the hold , the head to ...
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... keeping about six feet in advance of the bird , and turning to one side and the other so instantaneously , that the ... keep his body sup - cular strength affords , and so portable in its nature ported in the air ; and this is but ...
... keeping about six feet in advance of the bird , and turning to one side and the other so instantaneously , that the ... keep his body sup - cular strength affords , and so portable in its nature ported in the air ; and this is but ...
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... keep a piece of turf burning near their mouths , upon which they breathe , lest the fowl should smell them , and consequently fly away . The universality of this practice puts the necessity of it beyond a doubt , and proves the extreme ...
... keep a piece of turf burning near their mouths , upon which they breathe , lest the fowl should smell them , and consequently fly away . The universality of this practice puts the necessity of it beyond a doubt , and proves the extreme ...
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... keep it excessively warm , and throw the poor little animal into an artificial fever ; this produces the moult ; his old feathers fall before their time , and a new set take place , more brilliant and beautiful than the former . They ...
... keep it excessively warm , and throw the poor little animal into an artificial fever ; this produces the moult ; his old feathers fall before their time , and a new set take place , more brilliant and beautiful than the former . They ...
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... keep the prints of primeval nature strong upon them , except in a few ; they generally maintain their very colour : but it is otherwise with domestic animals ; they change at the will of man of the tame pigeon , for in- stance , it is ...
... keep the prints of primeval nature strong upon them , except in a few ; they generally maintain their very colour : but it is otherwise with domestic animals ; they change at the will of man of the tame pigeon , for in- stance , it is ...
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