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The enthusiastic Frenchman , when he had completed a work in which are described only eight hundred recognized species of birds , declared with amusing self - complacency that his subject was completed for all future time .
The enthusiastic Frenchman , when he had completed a work in which are described only eight hundred recognized species of birds , declared with amusing self - complacency that his subject was completed for all future time .
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Mr. Samuels , in his present volume , includes as among the birds of New England two hundred and sixty - six species , or a little more than one third of all the species now known to belong to North America , which are estimated as ...
Mr. Samuels , in his present volume , includes as among the birds of New England two hundred and sixty - six species , or a little more than one third of all the species now known to belong to North America , which are estimated as ...
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But there comes at length a time when the habits of the species are capable of no further alteration , and it will sooner allow itself to be exterminated than develop new faculties . In the same manner breeders may succeed in obtaining ...
But there comes at length a time when the habits of the species are capable of no further alteration , and it will sooner allow itself to be exterminated than develop new faculties . In the same manner breeders may succeed in obtaining ...
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LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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