Time's TelescopeSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1834 - Almanacs, English |
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ON THE RUMP GLAND IN BIRDS . - Were I tempted to explain why the hinder - part of the hens without tails has not a secretion performed in it like that which is observed in other hens , and in other kinds of birds , in many of which I ...
ON THE RUMP GLAND IN BIRDS . - Were I tempted to explain why the hinder - part of the hens without tails has not a secretion performed in it like that which is observed in other hens , and in other kinds of birds , in many of which I ...
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... birds as it can contrive to seize ; and there is no doubt , that a very considerable number of young birds are thus destroyed . I once observed six or seven large beetles , and humble bees , transfixed by one of these birds , on the ...
... birds as it can contrive to seize ; and there is no doubt , that a very considerable number of young birds are thus destroyed . I once observed six or seven large beetles , and humble bees , transfixed by one of these birds , on the ...
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... birds , chiefly summer birds of passage ; but I had some doubts of his good behaviour , when Colonel Mon- tagu expressly says , " it will sometimes attack a bird its inferior in size , or one in a sickly state , fracturing its skull by ...
... birds , chiefly summer birds of passage ; but I had some doubts of his good behaviour , when Colonel Mon- tagu expressly says , " it will sometimes attack a bird its inferior in size , or one in a sickly state , fracturing its skull by ...
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15th.-Illuminated disc 1st day 2d day 4th day altitude animalcules appearance Aquarii astronomers atmosphere axis beautiful birds bodies Capricorni Cassiopeia centre Cepheus Ceres colour Coma Berenices comet commenced conjunction dark Declination Delphinus diameter DIED difference of latitude distance double star earth eclipse EDWARD BLYTH Emersion feathers FIXED STARS Flamstead flowers fluid Geminorum Greatest and least greatest eastern elongation heaven Herschel horizon Immersion inferior conjunction John Herschel Jupiter least magnitude Leo Minor light MARTYR Mercury Meridian Transit months Moon morning motion nature nest night North Dec observed ox-eye perigee perihelion period PHENOMENA PLANETARUM planet remarkable Right Ascen ring rise round Saturn Second satellite seen semi-diameter shadow solar South Dec species spots sun's sweet Tauri TELESCOPIC OBJECTS thee Third satellite tion tree Uranus Ursa Ursa Major velocity Venus Vesta Virginis visible wing Wormegay young zenith