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... bird , or a wayside flower - the more striking external features of which he seeks to explain by the light of evolutionary principles . The author is as much at home among plants as among animals , and probably his most enjoyable papers ...
... bird , or a wayside flower - the more striking external features of which he seeks to explain by the light of evolutionary principles . The author is as much at home among plants as among animals , and probably his most enjoyable papers ...
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... bird or plant in the meadows about us . These fallow deer are no longer mere accidental animals happening to live in the park here at the present day : they are creatures with a whole past history of their own , as interesting to the ...
... bird or plant in the meadows about us . These fallow deer are no longer mere accidental animals happening to live in the park here at the present day : they are creatures with a whole past history of their own , as interesting to the ...
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... birds , in the absence of certain nervous elements supposed to be the organs of the colour sense ; while the eyes of bees and butterflies correspond to those of day birds in the presence of such organs . In fact , it is clear that a ...
... birds , in the absence of certain nervous elements supposed to be the organs of the colour sense ; while the eyes of bees and butterflies correspond to those of day birds in the presence of such organs . In fact , it is clear that a ...
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... birds and other hostile creatures as it sits still , and so it requires to resemble the ground , leaves , or twigs ... bird , and so devoured , is wiped out BUTTERFLY - HUNTING BEGINS . 33.
... birds and other hostile creatures as it sits still , and so it requires to resemble the ground , leaves , or twigs ... bird , and so devoured , is wiped out BUTTERFLY - HUNTING BEGINS . 33.
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... birds are very sharp and keen indeed . A hawk soaring so high in the sky that human sight fails to perceive it , will yet discriminate and pounce down upon a lark in the fields below -a small brown bird seated upon a brown clod of earth ...
... birds are very sharp and keen indeed . A hawk soaring so high in the sky that human sight fails to perceive it , will yet discriminate and pounce down upon a lark in the fields below -a small brown bird seated upon a brown clod of earth ...
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