Natural History for the Use of Schools and FamiliesHarper & Brothers, 1884 - 382 Seiten |
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... suckers , Hoopoes , and Creepers . 261. The Humming - birds , of which there are three hundred species , are exclusively confined to America . All but two or three are tropical birds . They are the smallest and most brilliantly colored ...
... suckers , Hoopoes , and Creepers . 261. The Humming - birds , of which there are three hundred species , are exclusively confined to America . All but two or three are tropical birds . They are the smallest and most brilliantly colored ...
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... sucker . This tube , or proboscis , varies much in different in- sects . In some , as the Bees , there is a mixture of the mandibulate and the haustellate arrangements . They obtain their food by suction , and use their mandibles and ...
... sucker . This tube , or proboscis , varies much in different in- sects . In some , as the Bees , there is a mixture of the mandibulate and the haustellate arrangements . They obtain their food by suction , and use their mandibles and ...
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... suckers on the end , by which they can hold on to any thing . The other six pairs are fringed with cilia , or hair - like filaments , which , by their contin- ual motion , produce currents in the water . This serves both to bring minute ...
... suckers on the end , by which they can hold on to any thing . The other six pairs are fringed with cilia , or hair - like filaments , which , by their contin- ual motion , produce currents in the water . This serves both to bring minute ...
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... sucker at each end of its body , and walks quite fast by fixing the anterior sucker , and then moving the posterior one up to it , and throwing the whole body forward from this . Its mode of walking is much like that of the Measure ...
... sucker at each end of its body , and walks quite fast by fixing the anterior sucker , and then moving the posterior one up to it , and throwing the whole body forward from this . Its mode of walking is much like that of the Measure ...
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... suckers on the ends of as many stalks . Each collection is in a sort of sheath , and can be pro- truded from it . There are on all the tentacula about three hundred and sixty thousand of these suckers , con- stituting an apparatus for ...
... suckers on the ends of as many stalks . Each collection is in a sort of sheath , and can be pro- truded from it . There are on all the tentacula about three hundred and sixty thousand of these suckers , con- stituting an apparatus for ...
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