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... mammals : apparently it treats ostriches as if they were merely feathered relatives of the ungulate mammals with which they roam the African plains . Chrysops , though its structure shows it to belong to an older branch of the family ...
... mammals : apparently it treats ostriches as if they were merely feathered relatives of the ungulate mammals with which they roam the African plains . Chrysops , though its structure shows it to belong to an older branch of the family ...
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... mammals have existed is suggested by the fact that the kangaroos have a species of their own , put into a separate genus as Tracheomyia macropi , living not in the head sinuses , but in the mucus in the windpipe . These larvae feed ...
... mammals have existed is suggested by the fact that the kangaroos have a species of their own , put into a separate genus as Tracheomyia macropi , living not in the head sinuses , but in the mucus in the windpipe . These larvae feed ...
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... mammals and birds . They are very considerably modified in structure to suit this way of life , and seldom or never leave their host . Since animals that give birth to living young are said to be vivi- parous , these flies that appear ...
... mammals and birds . They are very considerably modified in structure to suit this way of life , and seldom or never leave their host . Since animals that give birth to living young are said to be vivi- parous , these flies that appear ...
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THE PATTERN OF FLIES 3 | 3 |
THE LIFEHISTORY OF FLIES | 12 |
Part | 27 |
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