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... birds . On the wide geographical range of a species of Galaxias , a fresh - water fish . Discussion on analogical resemblances , enlarged and modified . Homological structure of the feet of certain marsupial animals . On serial ...
... birds . On the wide geographical range of a species of Galaxias , a fresh - water fish . Discussion on analogical resemblances , enlarged and modified . Homological structure of the feet of certain marsupial animals . On serial ...
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... birds , and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other , it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite , with its ...
... birds , and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other , it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite , with its ...
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... birds , with the rarest exceptions , hardly ever lay fertile eggs . Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless , in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids . When , on the one hand , we see domesticated animals and ...
... birds , with the rarest exceptions , hardly ever lay fertile eggs . Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless , in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids . When , on the one hand , we see domesticated animals and ...
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... birds the head and tail touch the oil - gland is quite aborted . Several other less distinct breeds might be specified . In the skeletons of the several breeds , the development of the bones of the face in length and breadth and ...
... birds the head and tail touch the oil - gland is quite aborted . Several other less distinct breeds might be specified . In the skeletons of the several breeds , the development of the bones of the face in length and breadth and ...
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... birds , would certainly be ranked by him as well - defined species Moreover , I do not believe that any ornithologist would in this case place the English carrier , the short - faced tumbler , the runt , the barb , pouter , and fantail ...
... birds , would certainly be ranked by him as well - defined species Moreover , I do not believe that any ornithologist would in this case place the English carrier , the short - faced tumbler , the runt , the barb , pouter , and fantail ...
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