Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, Volume 11West, Newman, 1853 - English periodicals |
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Page 3720
... with the present volume ; and will be charged thirteen shillings . An alphabetical list , both of contributors and contents , will be published once in the year . THE ZOOLOGIST FOR 1853 . Subscription for Professor Nees von.
... with the present volume ; and will be charged thirteen shillings . An alphabetical list , both of contributors and contents , will be published once in the year . THE ZOOLOGIST FOR 1853 . Subscription for Professor Nees von.
Page 3727
... once and for all . The weather has continued drenching wet , and the river has risen much with a tearing current . Now is near the end of the wet season , and the current will soon slacken . I have a canoe very convenient either to ...
... once and for all . The weather has continued drenching wet , and the river has risen much with a tearing current . Now is near the end of the wet season , and the current will soon slacken . I have a canoe very convenient either to ...
Page 3740
... Once more : Guenée states ( Intr . lxxx . ) that the synonymy in the Mus . Cat . accords " en tous points " with that established between himself and Mr. Doubleday : to show that this is not the case , the fol- lowing additional ...
... Once more : Guenée states ( Intr . lxxx . ) that the synonymy in the Mus . Cat . accords " en tous points " with that established between himself and Mr. Doubleday : to show that this is not the case , the fol- lowing additional ...
Page 3749
... once heard , can never be mistaken , but is difficult to describe . Now , my own idea , and the only way in which I can account for most of the circumstances I have related , is , that , for some reason or other , the bees find it ...
... once heard , can never be mistaken , but is difficult to describe . Now , my own idea , and the only way in which I can account for most of the circumstances I have related , is , that , for some reason or other , the bees find it ...
Page 3753
... once recognized it as the new bird he had seen . At a subsequent period I may have to refer to this subject again , and it will then be probably when the bird is captured , and the authority of Mr. Vingoe supported by the fact ...
... once recognized it as the new bird he had seen . At a subsequent period I may have to refer to this subject again , and it will then be probably when the bird is captured , and the authority of Mr. Vingoe supported by the fact ...
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abundant animal antennæ appearance April bats beautiful bees beetles bird bred British Brittle Star brown captured coast Coleophora Coleoptera collection colour common common snipe curious Dalkey Dalkey Sound eggs elytra elytron entomologists exhibited February feed female fish flying frequently garden genera genus Gray green ground habits hive Hüb inches insects J. E. Gray January June Killiney larva larvæ length Lepidoptera light little auk living male March mentioned months Moray Firth Natural History naturalists nearly neighbourhood nest Note notice Notodonta observed obtained occurrence paper perfect insect plants plumage present Proceedings pupa pupæ rare remarks river rostrum season seen September shells shot side sings song species specimens Sphenopteris spider Strepsiptera summer tail taken thorax tion toads trees tubercles variety weather Westwood wings winter wood woodcocks Yarrell young Zetland Zool Zoologist دو
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Page 3968 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 3708 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 3823 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Page 3996 - O CALEDONIA ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires, what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Page 3996 - Land of my sires ! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand ! Still, as I view each well-known scene, Think what is now, and what hath been, Seems as, to me, of all bereft, Sole friends thy woods and streams were left ; And thus I love them better still, Even in extremity of ill.
Page 3904 - It might be months, or years, or days, I kept no count — I took no note, I had no hope my eyes to raise, And clear them of their dreary mote; At last men came to set me free, I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where, It was at length the same to me, Fetter'd or fetterless to be, I learn'd to love despair.
Page 4075 - In the last two weeks of August and the first week of September...
Page 3904 - With spiders I had friendship made, And watch'd them in their sullen trade, Had seen the mice by moonlight play, And why should I feel less than they? We were all inmates of one place, And I, the monarch of each race, Had power to kill — yet, strange to tell!
Page 4088 - The Powers of the Creator Displayed in the Creation ; or, Observations on Life amidst the various forms of the Humbler Tribes of Animated Nature ; with Practical Comments and Illustrations. By Sir JOHN GRAHAM DALYELL, Knt.
Page 3821 - Finding no congenial resting place below, they reascend and fix themselves to the lower surface of the leaves, where they remain several days, when they repair to the branches, perforating the bark to feed on the fluid within. " From ' nits ' they attain the size of Pediculus hoini.