The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - Natural history |
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... birds , and is indeed very little inferior to the nightingale , when in good health ; but we are not to judge by such as are made feeble by improper food , or want of cleanliness in their cages . ALBINOS , in zoology , a denomination ...
... birds , and is indeed very little inferior to the nightingale , when in good health ; but we are not to judge by such as are made feeble by improper food , or want of cleanliness in their cages . ALBINOS , in zoology , a denomination ...
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... bird distinguishes its own . These eggs serve as food to the inhabitants of the coasts which the birds frequent ; and are procured with great hazard by persons let down with ropes , held by their companions , and who for want of stable ...
... bird distinguishes its own . These eggs serve as food to the inhabitants of the coasts which the birds frequent ; and are procured with great hazard by persons let down with ropes , held by their companions , and who for want of stable ...
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... Birds of this species are said not to be numerous ; they seldom ap- pear on the coasts of Norway . They are met with near Newfoundland and Iceland . They do not resort annually to the Ferroe islands , and they rarely descend more to the ...
... Birds of this species are said not to be numerous ; they seldom ap- pear on the coasts of Norway . They are met with near Newfoundland and Iceland . They do not resort annually to the Ferroe islands , and they rarely descend more to the ...
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... birds also re- semble one another . The alcyon was soli- tary and pensive ; and the kingsfisher is al- most always seen alone , and the pairing season is of short duration . The former was not only an inhabitant of the sea shore , but ...
... birds also re- semble one another . The alcyon was soli- tary and pensive ; and the kingsfisher is al- most always seen alone , and the pairing season is of short duration . The former was not only an inhabitant of the sea shore , but ...
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... bird ; but it is needless to recite them . Its flesh has the odour of musk , and is unpalatable . Plate II . Aves , fig . 4 . ALCHEMY , that branch of chemistry which had for its principal objects the trans- mutation of all the metals ...
... bird ; but it is needless to recite them . Its flesh has the odour of musk , and is unpalatable . Plate II . Aves , fig . 4 . ALCHEMY , that branch of chemistry which had for its principal objects the trans- mutation of all the metals ...
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