IN that portion of the article ``Birds,'' which I have lately written for the ``Encyclopdia Britannica,'' I said (page 729, column 2) that Odontopteryx had ``jaws armed with true teeth,'' and in this respect resembled Ichthyornis. The mistake has just been pointed out to me, and ...
Part I.-Principles Or Science Of Horticulture Horticulture, apart from the mechanical details connected with the maintenance of a garden and its appurtenances, may be considered as the application of the principles of plant physiology to the cultivation of plants from all parts of the globe, and...
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After the island’s feral cats were eradicated in the early 21st century, populations of other birds—including the masked booby, brown booby, and red-billed tropic bird but not the globally threatened native Ascension frigate bird—began recolonizing the island. Ascension was discovered by the ...
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It has some 326 bird species, including hornbills (such as the rhinoceros hornbill), flycatchers, whistlers, tailorbirds, and warblers. Mammals that can be found in Kinabalu Park include clouded leopards, leopard cats, pangolins, and slow lorises as well as porcupines, civets, and deer. ...
The evolution of the South American monkeys was also under way during the Miocene. By the end of the Miocene Epoch almost all the modern groups of whales had appeared, as had the early seals and walruses. Birds such as herons, rails, ducks, eagles, hawks, crows, sparrows, pheasants, ...
In that work Chaos, Night, Erebus, and Tartarus were the first primordial entities, and “blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus.” After ages pass, the egg hatches and Eros springs forth. Eros and Chaos then mate and produce birds. The ...
A host of birds, including black grouse, orioles, hazel grouse, woodpeckers, owls, blue tits, and ducks, inhabit the forests and marshlands. These too are hunted. Human intervention is most evident, however, in the sections of the region that are being developed and transformed into ...