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" One is admiring some brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom and one's eye suddenly appears a small dark object, suspended as it were between four short black threads meeting each other in a cross. For an instant it shows in front of... "
The Cambridge Natural History - Page 417
edited by - 1899
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The School newspaper Vol. [2 issues of vols. 31 and 32].

1876 - 554 pages
...creature. We are admiring some brilliant and beautiful flower, when there suddenly appears before us a small dark object suspended, as it were, between...cross. For an instant it shows in front of the flower ; again another instant, and, emitting a momentary flash of emerald and sapphire light, it is vanishing,...
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The Fortnightly, Volume 28

1877 - 900 pages
...remarks Professor Alfred Newton, is entirely unlike that of any other bird. " One is admiring some brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom...cross. For an instant it shows in front of the flower ; again another instant, and emitting a momentary flash of emerald and sapphire light, it is vanishing,...
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Tropical Nature, and Other Essays

Alfred Russel Wallace - Color - 1878 - 416 pages
...remarks Professor Alfred Newton, is entirely unlike that of any other bird : — " One is admiring some brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom...between four short black threads meeting each other in a eross. For an instant it shows in front of the flower; again another instant, and emit ting a momentary...
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Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature - 1891 - 518 pages
...remarks Professor Alfred Newton, is entirely unlike that of any other bird : " One is admiring some brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom...cross. For an instant it shows in front of the flower ; again another instant, and emitting a momentary flash of emerald and sapphire light, it is vanishing,...
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ...

United States National Museum - 1891 - 1220 pages
...admiring the clustering stars of a scarlet Cordia, the suowy cornucopias of a Portlandia, or some other brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom...other in a cross. For an instant it shows in front of i lif llower ; an iustaut more itsteadies itself, aud one perceives the space between each puirof threads...
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ...

United States National Museum - 1891 - 1194 pages
...cornucopias of a Portlandia, or some other brilliant and beautiful flower, when between the blossom and oue's eye suddenly appears a small dark object, suspended,...it shows in front of the flower ; an instant more itsteadies itself, and one perceives the space between each pair of threads occupied by a gray film;...
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Annual Report, Part 2

Smithsonian Institution - 1891 - 1216 pages
...Confía, the snowy cornucopias of a Portlandia, or some other brilliant and beautiful llower, wlien between the blossom and one's eye suddenly appears...threads meeting each other in a cross. For an instant itshows in front of the llower ; an instant more itsteadios itself, and one perceives the space between...
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Natural Selection and Tropical Nature: Essays on Descriptive and Theoretical ...

Alfred Russel Wallace - Nature - 1891 - 516 pages
...ful flower, when between the Wossui" . ^ s eye appears a small dark object, suspended as n w ei>e j, short black threads meeting each other in^ a cross. For an instant it shows in front of the flower ; again another instant, and emitting a momentary flash of emerald and sapphire light, it is vanishing,...
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