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If we look at that considerable portion of the world's duration which elapsed from the time of Thales , when the magnetic impulse was certainly known , to the time at which the polarity of this surprizing fossil was detected ...
If we look at that considerable portion of the world's duration which elapsed from the time of Thales , when the magnetic impulse was certainly known , to the time at which the polarity of this surprizing fossil was detected ...
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The only known species is now designated A. giganteus , corresponding to A. Pavonius of Vieillot , and to Luen , or Argus Pheasant of English authors . — Lophophorus of Temminck is synonymous with Monaulus of Vieillot , and comprizes as ...
The only known species is now designated A. giganteus , corresponding to A. Pavonius of Vieillot , and to Luen , or Argus Pheasant of English authors . — Lophophorus of Temminck is synonymous with Monaulus of Vieillot , and comprizes as ...
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... like the cock's comb : but , had M. Temminck been more conversant in the minutiæ of the French language , he would have known that crête is often used synonymously with huppe , as in the familiar phrase la créte d'une alouette .
... like the cock's comb : but , had M. Temminck been more conversant in the minutiæ of the French language , he would have known that crête is often used synonymously with huppe , as in the familiar phrase la créte d'une alouette .
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