Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon: With Narratives and Anecdotes, Illustrative of the Habits and Instincts of the Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c., Including a Monograph of the Elephant and a Description of the Modes of Capturing and Training It, with Engravings from Original Drawings |
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... Frequent suspensions of Experiment to create beds of the pearl oyster · Process of diving for pearls 377 Danger from sharks . Burrowing ants . Lepidoptera . - Butterflies The spectre Lycænidæ . ib . Wasps . 417 Bees · 418 370 Carpenter ...
... Frequent suspensions of Experiment to create beds of the pearl oyster · Process of diving for pearls 377 Danger from sharks . Burrowing ants . Lepidoptera . - Butterflies The spectre Lycænidæ . ib . Wasps . 417 Bees · 418 370 Carpenter ...
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... frequently encumbered as they are by their young , which cling to them in their career , than by the quickness of their eye and the unerring accuracy with which they seem almost to calculate the angle at which a descent will enable them ...
... frequently encumbered as they are by their young , which cling to them in their career , than by the quickness of their eye and the unerring accuracy with which they seem almost to calculate the angle at which a descent will enable them ...
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... frequently heard in the mountain jungles , and forms one of the characteristic noises of these lofty situations . It was first captured by Dr. Kelaart in the woods near Nuera - ellia , and from its peculiar appearance it has been named ...
... frequently heard in the mountain jungles , and forms one of the characteristic noises of these lofty situations . It was first captured by Dr. Kelaart in the woods near Nuera - ellia , and from its peculiar appearance it has been named ...
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... frequently seen congregated on the roof of a native hut : and , some years ago , the child of a Euro- pean clergyman stationed near Jaffna having been left on the ground by the nurse , was so teased and bitten by them as to cause its ...
... frequently seen congregated on the roof of a native hut : and , some years ago , the child of a Euro- pean clergyman stationed near Jaffna having been left on the ground by the nurse , was so teased and bitten by them as to cause its ...
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... frequently , large branches give way beneath their accumulated weight . Every forenoon , generally between the hours of 9 and 11 A. M. , they take to wing , apparently for exercise , and possibly to sun their wings and fur , and dry ...
... frequently , large branches give way beneath their accumulated weight . Every forenoon , generally between the hours of 9 and 11 A. M. , they take to wing , apparently for exercise , and possibly to sun their wings and fur , and dry ...
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